Wrapped in a Ribbon and Tied in a Bow Original Broadway Cast of Street Scene

[NEIGHBORS, variously]
Here they are
It's Jenny coming home from the graduation
Tell us how it happened, Jenny

[JENNY, spoken]
Well
(sung)
We sat in our snowy white dresses
And then it was my turn to go
"Your diploma!" they said, and I took it
Wrapped in a ribbon and tied in a bow
I felt like it must feel in heaven
What greater joy was there to know?
Then my mother gave me all these flowers

[JENNY & NEIGHBORS]
Wrapped in a ribbon and tied in a bow

[JENNY]
Happy me!
Could it be what I dared to hope in my heart
That I was the best in the scholarship test
Of the Gillihan School of Applied Commercial Art?
I could hardly believe when I heard it
On you we most proudly bestow