HER BEAUS ARE ONLY RAINBOWS
(Music: George W. Meyer / Lyrics: Alfred Bryan)


Ruth Etting - 1926
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians (vocal: Tom Waring) - 1926
Louis Katzman's Ambassadors (vocal: Irving Kaufman) - 1926
Paul Ash & His Orch. (vocal: Milton Watson) - 1926
Charley Straight & His Orch. (vocal: Frank Sylvano) - 1926
Sam Lanin's Orch. - 1926
Bessie Coldiron - 1926
California Humming Birds - 1926
Janet Klein - 1998





As recorded by RUTH ETTING:

Um-um-um, um-um-um

There's a fickle rose I know
Has a dozen beaus or so
She's a gay romancer
Just a little nightclub dancer
Foolish little rose don't know

Her beaus are only rainbows
And like the rainbows, they disappear
She goes the way the wind blows
And keeps believing they're all sincere

They never take her home to mother
Somehow they always bring another
Her beaus are only rainbows
They're never real beaus somehow

Um-um-um, um-um-um

Loves a game she likes to play
Takes a beau from poor May
Every day a new love 
Thinks she's won her true love
She will learn too late some day

That her beaus are only pretty little rainbows, 
pretty little rainbows
They always disappear in the sky, 
that's the reason why
She goes the way the wind blows
And keeps believing they're all sincere

Someday she'll learn they're just pretending
Then will her broken heart need mending
Her beaus are only pretty little rainbows
They're never real beaus somehow



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2017)