George Gershwin - Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! lyrics

(Verse) It happened down at the Golden Gate A fool there was, and her name was Kate She went and found herself a mate And she suffered ever after Of millionaires she had her pick But she played herself a dirty trick When she chose that guy whose name is Slick She's a sap to love him so Listen to her tale of woe (Chorus) I fetch him slippers Fill up the pipe he smokes I cook the kippers Laugh at his oldest jokes Yet here I anchor I might have had a banker Boy! What love has done to me! His nature's funny Quarrelsome half the time And as for money He hasn't got a dime And here's the joker I might have had a broker Boy! What love has done to me! When a guy looks my way Does he get emphatic? Say he gets dramatic I just want to fly away But if I left him I'd be all at sea I'm just a slavey, life is a funny thing He's got the gravy, I got a wedding ring And still I love him There's nobody above him Boy! What love has done to me! (scat break) (Chorus 2) His brains are minus Never a thought in sight And yet His Highness Lectures me day and night Oh, where was my sense To sign that wedding license? Boy! What love has done to me! My life he's wrecking Bet you could find him now Out somewhere necking Somebody else's Frau You get to know life When married to a lowlife Boy! What love has done to me! I can't keep my head up The butcher, the baker All know he's a faker Brother, I am fed up But I left him he'd be up a tree Where will I wind up I don't know where I'm at I make my mind up I oughta leave him flat Yet I have grown so I love the dirty so-and-so Boy! What love has done to me!