Look what a fool I’ve been
a 1921 popular song
words and music by Clarence Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- I’m wise to you baby, think that I’m goin’ away
People call me crazy foolish for to stay
You’ve got all my loving, saying I’m not true
When you say you don’t want me, it makes me feel blue
Chorus
If you don’t believe I love you
Look what a fool I’ve been
If you don’t think I fell for you
See what a hole I’m in
I’ve tried to be so kind, sweet as I could be
Then you went and tried to mistreat me
(spoken: poor little me)
I’m going to wear you off my mind
Off my mind, you’re so unkind
I’m going away, yes going away to stay
Just before I met you I had a good pair of shoes
But take a look at me now
I got the barefooted blues
So, if you don’t believe I love you
Look what a fool I’ve been
- You might have been happy, if you had only tried
Why not tell the truth dear, ‘stead of tellin’ lies
I always believed you but I can’t no more
Don’t come hanging around me, I want you to know
Chorus
If you don’t believe I love you
Look what a fool I’ve been
If you don’t think I fell for you
See what a hole I’m in
I’ve tried to be so kind, sweet as I could be
Then you went and tried to mistreat me
(spoken: poor little me)
I’m going to wear you off my mind
Off my mind, you’re so unkind
I’m going away, yes going away to stay
Keep a-fooling with me
I’ll catch a rail off a fence
I’ll beat you over the head
And I will learn you some sense
So, if you don’t believe I love you,
Look what a fool I’ve been
Chorus
If you don’t believe I love you
Look what a fool I’ve been
If you don’t think I fell for you
See what a hole I’m in
I’ve tried to be so kind, sweet as I could be
Then you went and tried to mistreat me
(spoken: poor little me)
I’m going to wear you off my mind
Off my mind, you’re so unkind
I’m going away, yes going away to stay
You were out of a job
Your money sho’ was all gone
You know that I busted Suds
To get your clothes out of pawn
So, if you don’t believe I love you
Look what a fool I’ve been
Sung here by Fred Feild: