Wheatless Day 1918 Kern

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6 Jul 2008
2008

If you will marry me,
how happy we will be,
Yes, life will seem so sweet.
If you should bid me,
I would pluck the stars
from out the sky,
and lay them at your feet.
I'll give you all your heart can wish,
except, that is to say,
a mutton chop on Tuesday,
for that's a meatless day.
Would you begrudge that favour
to her whom you adore?
I could not love thee, dear,
so much, loved I not Hoover more.

[She:] When you are my hubby
[He:] When you are my wife
[Both:] We'll settle down
somewhere in town
and live the simple life.
But, though economising
in ev'ry kind of way
with meatless days
and wheatless days
and heatless days
and sweetless days
we won't go through
a billandcooless
blissless kissless day.

[She:] When you are my hubby
[He:] When you are my wife
[Both:] We'll settle down
somewhere in town
and live the simple life.
But, though economising
in ev'ry kind of way
with meatless days
and wheatless days
and heatless days
and sweetless days
we won't go through
a billandcooless
blissless kissless day.

We'll be so happy
at our cozy little flat,
when ends the honeymoon,
I'll think up dodges
to avoid the income tax,
while you prepare the evening prune.
And when our simple meal is done,
to keep from getting bored,
we'll talk about the sugar,
which once we could afford.
Perhaps a little stranger
will come to us one day?
But, if the janitor objects,
we'll give the child away.

[She:] When you are my hubby
[He:] When you are my wife
[Both:] We'll settle down
somewhere in town
and live the simple life.
But, though economising
in ev'ry kind of way
with meatless days
and wheatless days
and heatless days
and sweetless days
we won't go through
a billandcooless
blissless kissless day.

[She:] When you are my hubby
[He:] When you are my wife
[Both:] We'll settle down
somewhere in town
and live the simple life.
But, though economising
in ev'ry kind of way
with meatless days
and wheatless days
and heatless days
and sweetless days
we won't go through
a billandcooless
blissless kissless day.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Wheatless Day 1918 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by P.G.Wodehouse
© MCMXVIII by T.B.Harms Co. - N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 6 July 2008 at 11.12
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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