Poor Little Girl - Count Basie, Tony Bennett

Poor little rich girl

You’re a bewitched girl

Better take care

Laughing at danger

Virtue a stranger

Better beware

The life you lead sets all your nerves a-jangle

You love affairs are in a hopeless tangle

Though you’re a child, dear

Your life’s a wild typhoon

In lives of leisure

The craze for pleasure

Steadily grows;

Cocktails and laughter

But what comes after?

Nobody knows

You’re weaving love into a mad jazz pattern

Ruled by Pantaloon

Poor little rich girl

Don’t drop a stitch too soon

You’re only a baby

You’re lonely, and maybe

Someday soon you’ll know

The tears you are tasting

Are years you are wasting

Life’s a bitter foe

With fate it’s no use competing

Youth is so terribly fleeting;

By dancing much faster

You’re chancing disaster

Time alone will show

Poor little rich girl

You’re a bewitched girl

Better take care

Laughing at danger

Virtue a stranger

Better beware!

The life you lead sets all your nerves a-jangle

You love affairs are in a hopeless tangle

Though you’re a child, dear

Your life’s a wild typhoon

In lives of leisure

The craze for pleasure

Steadily grows;

Cocktails and laughter

But what comes after?

Nobody knows!

You’re weaving love into a mad jazz pattern

Ruled by Pantaloon

Poor little rich girl

Don’t drop a stitch too soon