The song features a spoken word section in the middle, where the girls recall all the things they hated about Ohio that prompted them to leave in the first place, that ends with the sung line "Thank heaven we're free!"
[2] In the original 1953 Broadway production, the song was performed by Rosalind Russell and Edie Adams, as a duet.
[4] A noteworthy recording of the song was made by Doris Day as part of her albums, Show Time (1960) and My Heart (2011).
An additional noteworthy release was in November 2010 when it was sung by Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester and Carol Burnett as her mother Doris on the U.S. television show Glee, which takes place in Lima, Ohio.
[5][6] The original spoken word section is replaced with a new lyric about Sue's parents abandoning her to hunt Nazis.