AFTER YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT, YOU DON'T WANT IT
(Irving Berlin)

Nat King Cole - 1946

Also recorded by:

Joyce Breach; Marilyn Monroe; Red Nichols; 
Harry Roy; Twentieth Century Fox Orch.; Terry Waldo.


[1st verse:]
Listen to me, honey dear
Something's wrong with you I fear
It's getting harder to please you
Harder and harder each year
I don't want to make you blue
But you need a talking to
Like a lot of people I know
Here's what's wrong with you

[Refrain:]
After you get what you want, you don't want it
If I gave you the moon, you'd grow tired of it soon

You're like a baby
You want what you want when you want it
But after you are presented
With what you want, you're discontented

You're always wishing and wanting for something
When you get what you want
You don't want what you get

And tho' I sit upon your knee
You'll grow tired of me
'Cause after you get what you want
You don't want what you wanted at all

[2nd verse:]
Don't you say that I'm unkind
Think it over and you'll find
You've got a changeable nature
You're always changing your mind
There's a longing in your eye
That is hard to satisfy
You're unhappy most of the time
Here's the reason why

[Alternate Line:]
And tho' you sit upon my knee




(Contributed by  - April 2007)