WE CAN'T GET ALONG
From the short film "Office Blues" (1930)
(Music by Vernon Duke / Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg)


Ginger Rogers (Film Soundtrack) - 1930



There is he, here is me
We're no match, it's plain to see
He's a perfect lover, but not for me

We agree perfectly
Every time we disagree
Keep this undercover, he's so NG

I'm delectable, he's respectable
My love's negotiable, he won't be sociable
I see where we can't get along

I start squeezin' up, he starts freezin' up
I hate to urge a man, he's like a clergyman
I see where we can't get along

He is such a colour-blind bee 
And I'm a wasted flower
I'm the type reads Elinor Glyn
And he reads Schopenhauer 

I am cynical, he's rabbinical
I'm all for flyin' out, he's all for cryin' out, loudly
Say, we can't get along

I start pettin' up, he starts gettin' up
He tells me not to do things that I've got to do
I see where we can't get along

I'm for tastin' life, he's just wasting life
What has he gotten me, only monotony
I see where we can't get along

No one born in eighteen-o-one
Could be so antiquated
Why is he a millionaire's son
When we are so mismated

He's desire-proof, I'm not fireproof
Wants me to mother him, I'd rather smother him
I'll die if I don't get along
Bah-dah-dah-dah-dum
Lah-dum, lah-dum, lah-dah-dah-dah







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2011)