TOO MANY RULES
(Don Stirling / Harold Temkin)


as recorded by Connie Francis
with orchestra conducted by Cliff Parman
1961


I got home last night at ten past two,
My folks turned blue,
Their tempers flew!
I gotta be in bed at quarter to ten,
There go those rules again!

Too many rules,
Too many rules,
Folks are just fools
Makin' too many rules!
I pray to stars above
I haven't lost your love,
'Cause there are too many rules!

When you call me on the telephone,
It's not my own,
They've made it known!
So you must call me only now and then,
There go those rules again!

Too many rules,
Too many rules,
Folks are just fools
Makin' too many rules!
I pray to stars above
I haven't lost your love,
'Cause there are too many rules!

My big brother's always on my trail,
I can't escape that tattletale!
I hope you understand what I'm goin' through,
I don't know what to do!

Too many rules,
Too many rules,
Folks are just fools
Makin' too many rules!
I pray to stars above
I haven't lost your love,
'Cause there are too many rules,
'Cause there are too many rules!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - September 2014)