You Never Knew About Me 1917 Kern

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 Jul 2008
2008

[George:] We were children
once long ago, dear,
you and I.
At the start,
out lives lay apart
as lives will lie.
Up I grew
and I never knew
that the world contained
a darling like you,
nor did you dream
you would see little me,
too, bye and bye.

I never knew about you, dear,
and you never knew about me,
Life might have been Heaven,
If I then aged seven,
had but met you when you were three.
We'd have made mud pies
like affinities.
We'd have known what rapture may be.
I'd have let you feed my rabbit
'till the thing became a habit, dear!
But I never knew about you.
Ah! What might have been
and you never knew about me....

[Lou Ellen:] How I wish I'd known, dear,
that one day you'd arrive,
just to feel I had an ideal
for which to strive.
Had I known I'd meet you, my own,
I would not have lived
for pleasure alone,
I was frivolous and gay,
sad to say, when I was five.

I never knew about you, dear,
and you never knew about me,
I never missed chances
of juvenile dances,
for my life was one mad spree.
I was often kiss'd 'neath the mistletoe.
By small boys excited with tea.
If I'd known that you existed,
I'd have scratched them and resisted, dear!
But I never knew about you
Oh! the pain of it.
And you never knew about me.

[Dance:]

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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You Never Knew About Me 1917 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by P.G.Wodehouse
© MCMXVII by T.B.Harms, Francis, Day & Hunter - N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 4 July 2008 at 21.45
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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