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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
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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
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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 Bm5-/7 E7
I know I said, 'I'll make you mine'
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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 nothin' life
Bridge
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Girl: You said I'd have ev'rything, a beautiful diamond ring, a bungalow by the sea
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Boy: You're really naïve to ever believe a full-of-baloney phoney like me
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Girl: Say, how about the time you went to Indiana
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Boy: I was lyin', I was down in Alabam
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Girl: You said you had some bus'ness you had to complete
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Boy: What I was doin' I would be a cad to repeat
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Girl: How about the evenings you were with your mother
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Boy: I was rompin' with another honey lamb
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Girl: To think, you swore our love was real
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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 nothin' 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 Gdim G7 Gdim 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 Bm5-/7 E7
I know I said, 'I'll make you mine'
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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 nothin' life
Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane