You're A Sentimental Guy 1943 Berlin

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 10 May 2009
2009

[Mary:] You're a sentimental guy
it's a charge that you'll deny
but a song of home and mother
in a pinch could make you cry
and it seems my nat'ral bent is to
love a sentimental guy.
You can always knock them dead
with some clever thing you've said,
but you heart is not in tune
with what is running thro' your head,
and I'm perfectly content
just to love a sentimental guy.
You think you're the type for Broadway
you prowl it from night till dawn.
You really belong in Yonkers,
with a garden and a lawn
tho' I never heard you say
in the ordinary way
that you're simply wild about me
but I know there'll come a day
when my evenings will be spent
with a very sentimental guy.

[Wilson:] You're as wrong as you can be
in your estimate of me
when the rent for my apartment
is delayed a month or three
if some tears will save the rent
I'm a very sentimental guy.
When I'm speaking soft and low
to a copper that I know
who is talking is a pal
and I would like to let him go
if a sob will get consent
I'm a very sentimental guy
I melt with the breath of Springtime
when grass starts to green the lawn
I get very sentimental
as I take my coat to pawn.
[Mary:] So you think and so you may
in your clever sort of way
but I know it won't be long before
there'll come that happy day
when my evenings will be spent
with a very sentimental guy.

[Mary:] You're a sentimental guy
it's a charge that you'll deny
but a song of home and mother
in a pinch could make you cry
and it seems my nat'ral bent is to
love a sentimental guy.
You can always knock them dead
with some clever thing you've said,
but you heart is not in tune
with what is running thro' your head,
and I'm perfectly content
just to love a sentimental guy.
You think you're the type for Broadway
you prowl it from night till dawn.
You really belong in Yonkers,
with a garden and a lawn
tho' I never heard you say
in the ordinary way
that you're simply wild about me
but I know there'll come a day
when my evenings will be spent
with a very sentimental guy.

[Wilson:] You're as wrong as you can be
in your estimate of me
when the rent for my apartment
is delayed a month or three
if some tears will save the rent
I'm a very sentimental guy.
When I'm speaking soft and low
to a copper that I know
who is talking is a pal
and I would like to let him go
if a sob will get consent
I'm a very sentimental guy
I melt with the breath of Springtime
when grass starts to green the lawn
I get very sentimental
as I take my coat to pawn.
[Mary:] So you think and so you may
in your clever sort of way
but I know it won't be long before
there'll come that happy day
when my evenings will be spent
with a very sentimental guy.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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You're A Sentimental Guy 1943 Berlin
by Irving Berlin
© 1943 by Irving Berlin
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written in Early December 1956. An example of a number which gets cut
when the title of a musical is changed.  This song must have
stayed in his bottom drawer for years.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 10 May 2009 at 15.23
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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