Jerome Kern

“ Verse 1 In the game of love, the points that count are subtlety and finesse.
Not crude displays of your mental craze that advertize distress!
A rippling laugh and a fund of chaff, with never the sound of sighs!
And all else above, if you'd win at love,
Always look in your partner's eyes! ”

“ Refrain Daisy, Daisy,
Tell me all you know.
Ev'ry time I pluck a petal,
Secrets you can show.
Daisy, Daisy,
Tell me all you see.
There's a question you can settle:
Does the one I love, love me? ”

“ After working hard all day,
I got home and then they say:
Chorus "Papa, oh papa, Go and wash the motor car;
When you're through, change a shoe. What a lazy dog you are!"
The lawn must be mowed, The potatoes must be hoed. ”

“ Opening Chorus GIRLS, MEN.The weary sun has fled, and the day is o'er.
The moon reigns in his stead over sea and shore.
The soothing shadows fall like a cool caress
And darkness covers all, bringing happiness. ”

“ Wouldn't you regard with loathing,
Hats and coats and underclothing,
If you hadn't got to bed till half-past two?
A shopgirl in the city is deserving of your pity,
Of pleasure life for her is not a whirl. ”

“ Verse 1 Billy When a chap would utter
words that make him stutter
To a girlie sweet,
At her stare, he's well aware
That he has lots of hands and feet.
Then some kind musician,
Seeing his position,
Softly starts to play ”

“ Till you jump on the "El"
going
Refrain Way down town we go
All the way down town.
They never worry 'bout troubles or cares
Now they're all bootleggin' big millionaires.
That's the place to be
When the sun goes down. ”

“ Your form is girlish in its slenderness
You've got a mother's smile of tenderness.
I hear your laugh,
it's like an April morn.
I see you weep
a tiny pearl is born
I breathe your name,
And find the vision has flown. ”

“ HENRY (Spoken) Going up! going up!
CHORUS We see them there
Just as they used to be.
A happy pair
they go contentedly.
The motor hums a merry bridal tune
As they begin their second honeymoon without a care
for what may lie before
Resolved to dare. ”

“ How we cop the jack and get away
You can talk about the yaps from Yaphank
Of the reubens and the small town gawk but
A guy can pick an easy mark and sell him half o' Central Park,
In Old New York. ”

“ It's always the same,
Ev'ry day, It's always the same.
Our little chats, we have to stop.
When we hear someone shouting "Shop!"
We're oppressed, it's simply not right,
Get no rest from morning till night. ”

“ By a man with scrubby whiskers, you'll be kissed upon your birthday,
It's a sure, sure sign!
Verse 2 This little verse is in the cause of temperance,
For drink is a curse, that's why we put it down. ”

“ But when they started joshing him,
His pride, it didn't injure.
He'd simply say
"Ah, fade away!"
He knew that he had ginger.
Refrain Napoleon, Napoleon,
They thought him quite a joke.
"Hey! talke a slant at the little pill!" ”

“ I'd spend ev'ry day there,
If only the way there, I knew.
Verse 2 Happy lovers there are able
To hold hands beneath the table,
If they're caught embracing there is no one to grin.
No one pays the least attention ”

“ Oh, but I wonder for how long it will be.
If you find someday, you've altered your mind
I'd be forgiving, but simply could not go on living!
Ted. Men much handsomer you'll meet by the score,
Will you regret you never met them before? ”

“ Verse 1 I've always said
that the man I would wed
must be one who would work all the time.
One with ambition,
Who'd make it his mission,
to win a position sublime.
One whose chief pleasure would be making a fortune for me ”

“ We'll find you such a relief, you know,
When things have started to get too slow.
(Ted) Oh yes, we'll have lots of fun, although
Most careful how far we go.
(Girls) You're the nicest man in town. ”