HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAID I LOVED YOU, WHEN YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN A LIAR ALL MY LIFE ?
Fred Astaire & Jane Powell


Intro:

Dialogue

Fred: 
Oh yeah, yeah!

Jane:
You listen to me just once.

Fred:
Oh sure, sure!

Jane:
I told you a million times
You never wanna listen to me

Fred:
So I said it.
So you heard it
So you're mad.
So what?

Jane:
So this--It's the last time I ever
Go to a party with you!

Fred: Will you put that in writin'?

Jane:
Well you're always
Makin' cracks
Makin' cracks!

Fred: Like what?

Jane:
You always humilate me,
Humilate me.
Didn't your mother never teach ya no manners?

Fred:
I ain't never had no mother.
We was too poor.

Jane:
Say, what's the matter with you lately?
You used to tell me you loved me.
You used to treat me like a high-class dame.
Well usen't ya?

Fred:
So I used.

Jane:
Oh, so there, you admit it.

Fred:
I ain't admittin' nothin'!

Jane:
I'll give ya one more chance.
Do ya love me or don't ya?

Fred: 
No I don't!

Jane:
Quit stallin'! 
I want a direct answer.

Fred:
Oh...
Listen, kid, there's one thing about ya I can't understand---

Singing

Fred:
How could you believe me when I said I loved you 
When you know I've been a liar all my life?

Jane:
You've had that reputation
Since you was a youth.

Fred:
You must've been insane
To think I'd tell you the truth.

Jane:
How could I believe you
When you said we'd marry?

Fred:
Why, you know I'd rather hang
Than have a wife.
I know I said I'd make you mine.

Jane:
Now wouldn't youse know
That I would go for that old line?

Fred: 
How could you believe me
When I said I loved you
When you know I've been a liar?

Jane:
You sure have been a liar.

Fred:
A double-crossin' liar.

Jane:
A double-crossin' liar.

Fred:
All my doggone cheatin' life?

Jane:
You said you would love me long.

Fred:
So what?

Jane:
And never would do me wrong.

Fred:
Stop bending the suit!

Jane:
Faithful you'd always be.

Fred:
Me?
Why baby, you must be loony
To trust a lower-than-low, two-timer like me.

Jane:
You said I'd have everything.

Fred:
Get her.

Jane:
A beautiful diamond ring.

Fred:
Ha ha ha.

Jane:
A bungalow by the sea.

Fred:
A bungalow yet.
You're really naive to ever believe
A full-of-baloney phony like me.

Jane:
Boy, I sure must've lost my head.

Fred:
You ain't lost nothin' you never had.

Jane:
What about the time you went to Indiana?

Fred:
I was lyin'.
I was down in Ala...bam.

Jane:
You said you had some business
You had to complete.

Fred:
What I was doin'
I would be a cad to repeat.

Jane:
What about the evenin's
You was with your mother?

Fred:
I was rompin' with another honey lamb.

Jane:
To think you swore
Our love was real.

Fred:
Baby, leave us not forget
That I'm a heel.

Jane:
How could I believe you
When you said you loved me?

Fred:
When you know I've been a liar.

Jane:
A good-for-nothin' liar.

Fred:
All my good-for-nothin' life.

-Dance Sequence-

(While Dancing)
Fred: 
Hey! 
Yee-hoo! 
Hey!
Hey! 

(Jane starts kicking and hitting Fred while they continue to dance)

Fred:
Ooh!
Ow! Ooh!

Jane: 
You know you've been a liar.

Fred:
I know I've been a liar.

Jane:
A double-crossin' liar.

Fred:
A double-crossin' liar.

Jane:
All your good-for-nothin' life!



(Transcribed by Carlene Bogle - 2002)