You Never Can Tell About A Woman 1906 'The Red Mill'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 12 Jan 2004

[Burgomaster:] You can tell about
the weather, if it's going to rain or shine;
You can figure on the market
and you're apt to get a line;
You may handicap the horses
and perhaps you'll "dope 'em out!"
But to figure on a woman
is to always be in doubt!
[Willem:] The trouble is you
can't tell what they want from what they say,
and what they want tomorrow
isn't what they want today.
If you do what they tell you,
why you only make them mad,
and if you do the opposite
you're sure to get in bad.

[Both:] For you never can tell about a woman
perhaps that's why we think them all as nice,
you never find two alike any one time
and you never find one alike twice.
You're never very certain that they love you,
you're often very certain that they don't,
the men may fancy still,
that they have the strongest will,
but the women have the strongest "won't!"

[Burgomaster:] I remember on my honeymoon
my darling little wife, said:
"Dearest, if I died would you
stay single all your life?"
And when I answered: "No, I think
that I again should wed,"
She cried and cried and sobbed and sighed
until her nose was red!
[Willem:] I had the same experience,
but just the other way,
my wife and I had had
an awful fuss that very day.
She said: "If I should die
would you select another bride?"
And when I said: "You bet your life
I wouldn't," How she cried!

[Both:] For you never can tell about a woman
perhaps that's why we think them all as nice,
you never find two alike any one time
and you never find one alike twice.
You're never very certain that they love you,
you're often very certain that they don't,
the men may fancy still,
that they have the strongest will,
but the women have the strongest "won't!"

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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You Never Can Tell About A Woman 1906
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMVI by M. Witmark and Sons
sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 12 January 2004 at 16.39
in association with Doug Grierson
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David Montgomery and Fred A. Stone in Chas. Dillingham's
Production "The Red Mill."
Music by Victor Herbert. Book & Lyrics by Henry Blossom.
Henry Blossom Publication: New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1906.
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