From the show “Kid Boots”, 1923
Words and music by Roy Turk, Lou Handman and Eddie Cantor
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Don’t need rings, don’t need clothes
Don’t need money, goodness knows
All I need is lovin’ of the first class A.
You can’t imagine how you rave, how you brag
All day long you chew the rag
‘Bout the way that you can kiss
You’d better lend your ear to this now
Chorus:
If you do what you do
Half as good as you say you do
You’d better start in your kissin’
‘Cause that’s what I’ve been missin’ so
Believe me, if you are, what you are
That’s if you’re what you say you are
You can bet your life I’m never gonna let you go
I’m blue and all alone
And only love can cure me
I’m one that must be shown
Because I’m from Missouri
So honey, if you do, what you do
Half as good as you say you do
I’ll tell you what you’d better do
Better start in lovin’ me now
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: