From the comedy “Cousin Lucy”, 1915
Words by Jerome Kern and Schuyler Greene
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- If complications seem to perplex
And explanations serve but to vex
If you will let me, I’ll prove to you
How much less value one has than two
I’ll tell you what we’ll do
Refrain
Let’s put our two heads together
Just to decide upon whether
We can’t contrive to arrange
Sort of a Love Stock Exchange
Contracts to Terminate never
We will be partners forever
For after all’s said and done
Two heads are better than one
- A little fable will illustrate
How one is able to calculate
Two lonely ones met and skies turned blue
This happy duet before they knew
Were one instead of two
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: