The Half of It, Dearie, Blues

(Verse 1)

Each time you trill

A song with Bill

Or look at Will

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

(Chorus 1)

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

(Verse 2)

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

(Chorus 2)

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

(Chorus 3)

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