WHEN I'M HOUSEKEEPING FOR YOU
>From the film "The Battle Of Paris" (1929)
(Music: Jay Gorney / Lyrics: Dick Howard [aka Howard Dietz])


Gertrude Lawrence (Film Soundtrack) - 1929
Frank Auburn [aka Ben Selvin] & His Orch. (vocal: Annette Hanshaw) - 1929
Eva Taylor - 1929
Sam Lanin & His band - 1930
Karen Lynn Gorney - 2007





I never meant to be a gadabout
In fact I'm mad about sweet simplicity
The things I've done were unintentional
I crave conventional domesticity
I'm sure your reward would be commensurate
If you could relent and let me venture it

Then pies I'll be baking and rugs I'll be shaking
And beds I'll be making for you
Cooking and spicing and spreading cake icing
To make life enticing for you

I know that men's work may be from sun to sun
But woman's work somehow is never, never done
So laughing, not weeping, I'll go to my sweeping
When I am housekeeping for you

I'll do the rocking each time the baby cries
And now and then I'll have to change his.......lullabies
Although it's a grind, dear, somehow I won't mind, dear
When I am housekeeping for you






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2014)