The Half of It, Dearie, Blues

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

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

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 future will be blue

And stormy

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

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