You Never Can Tell (Kern)
[Verse]
- Does it seem to you.
- As it seems to me?
- For it seems to me
- this world is just about right
- Life is like a song
- Sung the whole day long
- Nothing can go wrong,
- the sun was never so bright.
- Why is it perhaps you'll guess
- and if you won't I'll have to confess
- Just when you think you're all right,
- Love comes along and then it's "Goodnight."
[Chorus]
- Oh you never can tell
- Oh you never can say
- When your heart will rebel
- Hearts are funny that way
- You may think you stand the test
- But you find you're like the rest
- Oh you cannot tell why
- And you cannot tell how
- It may be by and by
- Or it may happen now
- Fate arranged it long ago
- So you never can tell you know.
[Verse]
- Do I seem the same?
- Haven't changed my name
- Nothing else the same
- seems as it was yesterday
- Ev'rything looks new
- Even skies are blue
- Some new point of view
- in all I do or I say.
- I know why I won't deny
- and you can tell I know if you try
- I thought love had passed me by
- There's no more astonished than I.
[Chorus]
- Oh you never can tell
- Oh you never can say
- When your heart will rebel
- Hearts are funny that way
- You may think you stand the test
- But you find you're like the rest
- Oh you cannot tell why
- And you cannot tell how
- It may be by and by
- Or it may happen now
- Fate arranged it long ago
- So you never can tell you know.
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