Tom: C
C Am C Am C Am
How could you believe me when I said "I Love You"
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I've been a liar all my life?
G7 G? G7 G? G7
I've had that reputation since I was a youth --
C C/B Am7 Am7/G D7 Dm7 G7
You must have been insane to think I'd ever tell the truth.
C Am C Am C Am
How could you believe me when I said we'd marry,
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I'd rather die than that have a wife?
C Bm7(b5) E7
I know I said, "I'll make you mine,"
Am Am+7 Am7 Am6 Em B7 G7
But who would know that you would go for that old line?
C Am C Am D7
How could you believe me when I said "I Love You"
C Am C Fm D7
When you know I've been a liar, a good for nothing liar,
C Am Dm7 G7 C
All my good for noth - in' life?
Bridge:
F C7 F C7 F
Girl: You said I'd have ev'rything, a beautiful diamond ring,
Bb Bbm
A bungalow by the sea...
F D7
Boy: You're really na?ve to ever believe
Gm7 C7 F
A full-of-baloney phoney like me.
C Am C Am C Am
Girl: Say, how about the time you went to Indiana?
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
Boy: I was lyin', I was down in Alabam!
G7 G? G7 G? G7
Girl: You said you had some bus'ness you had to complete.
C C/B Am7 Am7/G D7 G7
Boy: What I was doin' I would be a cad to repeat.
C Am C Am C Am
Girl: How about the evenings you were with your mother?
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
Boy: I was rompin' with another honey lamb.
C Bm7(b5) E7
Girl: To think, you swore our love was real!
Am Am+7 Am7 Am6 Em B7 G7
Boy: But, Baby, let us not forget that I'm a heel!
C Am C Am D7
How could you believe me when I said I love you,
C Am C Fm D7
When you know I've been a liar, a good for nothing liar,
C Am Dm7 G7 C
All my good for noth - in' life?
C Am C Am C Am
Girl: And how could you believe me when I said, "I love you"
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I've been a liar all my life?
G7 G? G7 G? G7
I've had that reputation since I was a youth --
C C/B Am7 Am7/G D7 Dm7 G7
You must have been insane to think I'd ever tell the truth.
C Am C Am C Am
And how could you believe me when I said we'd marry,
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I'd rather hang than be a wife?
C Bm7(b5) E7
I know I said, "I'll make you mine" --
Am Am+7 Am7 Am6 Em B7 G7
But, honey, you're so young, and that's an old, old line.
C Am C Am D7
How could you believe me when I said "I Love You"
C Am C Fm D7
When you know I've been a liar, a good for nothing liar,
C Am Dm7 G7 C
All my good for noth - in' life?