GOOD MAN IS A SELDOM THING, A

(DeForest)

as recorded by Chris Connor
with The Ralph Sharon Septet
April 1955 New York


He's a worthless sort of guy, but what a case I've got,
First he loves me good and then he loves me not!
He rules me like a puppet on a string,
But a good man is a seldom thing!

He says he'll drop around, I dream and watch and wait,
And hush the wiser voice that whispers, "Fool it's too late!",
But I need, I need that little laugh you bring,
But a good man is a seldom thing!

I tell myself that it's finished,
For love, it's the end of the line!
And so I tell him I'm finished,
But he knows there's that one more time!

He'll be by tonight to talk it up a bit,
And sell me on the hunch that maybe this is it!
Then, like a lonely child I'll cry and cling,
Oh, I'm tired of this sometime fling,
But a good man is a seldom thing!

He'll be by tonight to talk it up a bit,
And sell me on the hunch that maybe this is it!
Then, like a lonely child I'll cry and cling,
Oh, I'm tired of this sometime fling,
But a good man is a seldom thing!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - November 2018)