From the production “Jack and Jill”, 1934
Words by Desmond Carter
Music by Vivian Ellis
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- You’re so inconsistent
First you’re very nice
Then you’re cold and distant
Like a piece of ice
I intend to say it twice
First you’re very nice
And then you seem to change somehow
Smiling in the morning
Charming to me then
Now without a warning
I’m the worst of men
I intend to say again
Charming to me then
But absolutely different now
Refrain:
I’m on a see-saw
You throw me up and you throw me down
I don’t know whether I’m here or there
Those dreams that we saw
You built them up and you knock them down
I don’t know whether you even care
First I was Heaven-bound
Then I found you turned ’round
And as I hit the ground
You went up in the air
I’m on a see-saw
You throw me up and you throw me down
And altogether you don’t play fair
- You’re the worst offender
You’re the one to blame
I’ve been true and tender
Can’t you be the same?
To the world I will proclaim
You’re the one to blame
And not the sort of man I need
You were one I trusted
You were true as steel
Now I find you’re rusted
Anything but real
And this fact I won’t conceal
You were true as steel
But now you’re just a broken reed
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: