The Half of It, Dearie, Blues

Lyrics

(Verse 1) [DICK] 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) [SHIRLEY] 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) [ENSEMBLE] 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 [DICK] I've got the You-Don't-Know-the-Half-of-It-Dearie blues [Dance break.] [MEN] 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 [DICK] With your permission My one ambition Was to go through life Saying, "Meet the wife" [ENSEMBLE] I've got the You-Don't-Know-the-Half-of-It-Dearie blues