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Outside of loving you, I like you And liking you makes me love you more You’re fun to be with and disagree with While drinking cocktails or sipping tea with Outside of kissing you, I like you It sweetens the kisses I adore I love making love to you but after the kissing ends Outside [...]
Funny when you’re left with nothing more to say Suddenly you find you should be on your way Funny how you long for some excuse To remain awhile but it’s no use The conversation ends and you’ve nothing more to say Funny when you’re left without a thought on your mind Funny when you search [...]
Love leads to marriage, that leads to divorce That leads to lawyers, expensive, of course Private detectives who watch all your moves That leads to charges which nobody proves If there are children you hear from the court Father can’t see them but pays their support Love is the start of it, I want no [...]
Poets love to sing of Paris in the Spring They say it’s something that you can’t conceive I don’t know a thing of Paris in the Spring I’ve never been abroad but I believe A beautiful day in Brooklyn is more beautiful Than a beautiful day in any other place When the sun comes shining [...]
[Duet for married man and mistress:] You can’t do this to me, you can’t do this to me I’ve given you the best years of my life You can’t put on your hat, walk out and leave me flat -Go home tonight and tell it to your wife You can’t do this to me, you [...]
[Written January 1966, revised March 1978.] I don’t care who takes you to the party, baby I don’t care, long as I can take you home I don’t care just who you go with, just who it may be I don’t care how much you’re with him Long as you wind up with me I [...]
You love me and I don’t doubt it But you don’t have to shout it Whisper it, whisper it in my ear I just love to hear you tell it But you don’t have to yell it Whisper it, whisper it in my ear Pin that Medal Of Merit on my chest But please soft [...]
When you accuse me of being untrue, my dear It hurts me so, you’ll never know There’s no one else that I’m loving but you, my dear That’s true and so you ought to know I don’t go out with other guys -I saw you myself with my own eyes Do you believe your eyes [...]