You’re Not Fooling Me

Lyrics

[LIZZIE, spoken] Con man! Fake! [STARBUCK] Lizzie, stop fiddlin' with your buttons Fiddlin' with your buttons, Lizzie [STARBUCK, spoken] Nice white dress all buttoned up tight [STARBUCK] Lizzie, stop fiddlin' with your buttons Better check again for certain [STARBUCK, spoken] Don't wanna miss a button, Lizzie What are you so afraid of? [LIZZIE, spoken] Leave me alone! [STARBUCK, spoken] What are you so afraid of? [LIZZIE, spoken] Let go of my arm! [STARBUCK] You try to be so high and mighty You act like you're cool as can be You may fool your brothers And all of those others But sister, you're not foolin' me [LIZZIE] You ride in your bright shiny wagon You think that you're somethin' to see You may fool the locals With such hocus-pocus But mister, you're not foolin' me [STARBUCK, spoken] Now, wait a minute From the minute I came in here, you didn't like me Why not? [LIZZIE, spoken] Why? 'Cause you're a liar and you're a fake [STARBUCK, spoken] How do you know I'm a liar? How do you know I'm a fake? Maybe I can bring rain Maybe when I was born, God whispered something special in my ear Maybe he said, "Bill Starbuck, you ain't gonna have much in this life You ain't gonna have no wife and no kids No green little house to come home to But Bill Starbuck, wherever you go, you're gonna bring rain" Maybe that's my one and only blessing [LIZZIE, spoken] There is no such blessing in the whole world [STARBUCK, spoken] Oh, I've seen even better blessings, Lizzie girl I got a brother who's a doctor You don't have to tell him where you ache or where you pain He just comes in and lays his hand on your heart And pretty soon you're breathin' sweet again I got another brother who can play the fiddle And when he's playin', that tune is there and it never leaves you And I used to think, why ain't I blessed like Fred or Arny? Why am I just a nothin' man, with nothin' special to my name? And then one summer comes the drought And Fred can't heal it away and Arny can't play it away But me— Well, I go down to the hollow and I look up and I say "Rain! Dammit! Please—" [STARBUCK] Let the rain come! Let the rain come! Let the rain come! [STARBUCK, spoken] And the rain came And I knew, I knew I was part of the family! Now, there's a story You don't have to believe it if you don't want to [LIZZIE, spoken] I don't believe it [STARBUCK, spoken] Well, you don't believe in anything Well, you put on a fancy dress and the beau didn't come So now you're scared nothin'll ever come [LIZZIE & STARBUCK] You ride in your bright shiny wagon (You try to be so high and mighty) You think that you're somethin' to see (You act like you're cool as can be) You may fool the locals With such hocus-pocus (You may fool your brothers) But mister, you're not foolin' me (And all of those others) Not me, not me (But sister, you're not foolin' me) [LIZZIE & STARBUCK] Not me! [STARBUCK, spoken] Well, Lizzie, I am sad about you You don't believe in anything, not even yourself You don't even believe you're a woman And if you don't, you're not! [LIZZIE] That's not true! That's not true!