They Didn't Believe Me 1914 'The Girl From Utah'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Aug 2004

[Boy:] Got the cutest little way,
Like to watch you all the day.
And it certainly seems fine,
Just to think that you'll be mine.
When I see your pretty smile,
Makes the living worth the while.
So I've got to run around,
Telling people what I've found.

And when I told them
how beautiful you are,
They didn't believe me.
They didn't believe me!
Your lips, your eyes,
your cheeks, your hair,
Are in a class beyond compare,
You're the loveliest girl
that one could see!
And when I tell them,
And I cert'nly am goin' to tell them,
That I'm the man
whose wife one day you'll be.
They'll never believe me.
They'll never believe me.
That from this great big world
you've chosen me!

[Girl:] Don't know how it happened quite,
May have been the summer night.
May have been, well, who can say.
Things just happen any way,
All I know is I said "yes!"
Hesitating more or less,
And you kissed me where I stood,
Just like any fellow would.

And when I told them
how wonderful you are,
They didn't believe me.
They didn't believe me!
Your lips, your eyes, your curly hair,
Are in a class beyond compare,
You're the loveliest thing
that one could see!
And when I tell them,
And I cert'nly am goin' to tell them,
That I'm the girl
whose boy one day you'll be.
They'll never believe me.
They'll never believe me.
That from this great big world
you've chosen me!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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They Didn't Believe Me 1914
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Herbert Reynolds
© MCMXIV by T.B.Harms Inc.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 26 August 2004 at 09.17
in association with Doug Grierson
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As Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian sang this song
at the Knickerbocker Theatre on the night of August 14, 1914,
it is doubtful they or their audience realized they were part
of an historic moment. As far as they knew, it was just
great entertainment. "They Didn't Believe Me" eclipsed
everything in the show's original British score and made
Kern the hottest new composer on Broadway Musical theatre.
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