Know The Half Of It Dearie Blues - Fred Astaire, George Gershwin

Each time you trill

A song with Will

Or look at Bill

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 fu-

Ture 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

(dance break)

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