If You Can’t Tell the World She’s a Good Little Girl

(Just Say Nothing At All)
A popular song from 1926
Words by Al Dubin and Irving Kahal
Music by Sammy Fain

The sheet music:

If You Can’t Tell the World She’s a Good Little Girl – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:

If_You_Cant_Tell_The_World_Shes_A_Good_Little_Girl – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. People who gossip are people who lie
    So try to keep out of their way
    Many a girl saw her happiness die
    ‘Cause someone had too much to say

Chorus:
If you can’t tell the world she’s a good little girl
Then just say nothing at all
Who cares what she once used to be
As long as she’s sorry she needs sympathy
Don’t give away what you know of her life
Some day she may make a wonderful wife
If you can’t tell the world she’s a good little girl
Then just say nothing at all

  1. Homes have been broken and hearts filled with pain
    By stories that shouldn’t be told
    Dreams have been dreamed and then shattered in vain
    Before a new scandal grows old

Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: