Fred Astaire - How Could You Believe Me (with Jane Powell)

This is the last time I'll ever go to a party with you

Will you put that in writing?

Oh, you're always making cracks, making cracks

Like what?

You're always humiliating me, humiliating me; didn't your mother never teach you no manners?

I never had no mother, we was too poor

What's the matter with you lately; you used to tell me you loved me. You used to treat me like a high-classed dame. Well, usedn't you?

So I used

So, now you admit it

I ain't admitting nothing

I'll give you one more chance. Do you love me or don't you?

No, I don't

Quit stalling! I want a direct answer.

Listen kid, there's one thing about you I can't understand

How could you believe me when I said "I love you" when you know I've been a liar all my life?

You've had that reputation since you was a youth

You must have been insane to think I'd tell you the truth

How could I believe you when you said we'd marry?

When you know I'd rather hang than have a wife. I know I said, "I'd make you mine."

Now wouldn't you know that I would go for that old line?

How could you believe me when I said "I love you," when you know I've been a liar

You sure have been a liar

A double-crossing liar

A double-crossing liar

All my doggone cheatin' life

You said you would love me long

So what?

And never would do me wrong

Stop bending the suit

Faithful you'd always be

Me? Why, baby, you must be loony to trust a lower-than-low, two-timer like me

You said I'd have everything

Get her!

A beautiful diamond ring

Ha, ha, ha!

A bungalow by the sea

A bungalow yet! You're really naive to ever believe a full-of-baloney phony like me

Boy, I sure must have lost my head

You ain't lost nothing you never had

What about the time you went to Indiana?

I was lyin', I was down in Alabama!

You said you had some business you had to complete

What I was doin' I would be a cad to repeat

What about the evenings you was with your mother?

I was rompin' with another honey lamb

To think you swore our love was real

Baby, leave us not forget that I'm a heel

How could I believe you when you said you loved me?

When you know I've been a liar

A good-for-nothing liar

All my good-for-nothing life

You know you've been a liar

I know I've been a liar

A double-crossing liar

A double-crossing liar

All your double-crossing life