George Gershwin - The Half of It, Dearie" Blues lyrics

Each time you trill a song with Will
Or look at Bill i get a chill
I'm gloomy i won't recall
The names of all the men who fall
It's all appall- ing to me
Of course, I really cannot blame them a bit
For you're a hit wherever you flit
I know it's so but dearie, oh
You'll never know the blues that go
Right through me

I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues the trouble is you have so
Many from whom to choose if you should marry
Tom, Dick, or Harry life would be the bunk
I'd become a monk
I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues

To Bill and Ben i'd pay atten-
Tion now and then but really men
Would bore me when I'd begun
To think I'd run and be a nun
I met the one man for me
And now just when the sun is starting to beam
You get engaged zip! goes a dream
What will I do away from you?
I feel the fu- ture will be blue
And stormy

I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues
It may be my heart isn't broken
But there's a bruise
Through you, I've known some
Days that were lonesome
Though you say that I'm
Flirting all the time
I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues

I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues
Although I know that love's a gamble
I hate to lose life will be duller
Will have no color jill without a Jack
Makes the future black
I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues

I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues

I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues
Each time I try to kiss my baby
I get bad news

With your permission my one ambition
Was to go through life
Saying, "Meet the wife"

I've got the "you don't know the half of it
Dearie" blues