From the comedy “Love O’ Mike”, 1916
Words by Harry B. Smith
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Clever girls will never ask a lover
“Have you ever loved before?”
One should know the chance is
He’s had fancies and romances by the score
He has sung that same old song
Long before she came along
You’ve had practise I can tell
That’s why you mke love so well
Refrain
Who cares if you loved others before me
What matters it when or where or how
When you tell me you fondly adore me
I am content if you love me now
First love may be a pretty story
Last love is e’er a crowning glory
Who cares if you remember a first love
If only I know your last love’s mine
- Clever men endeavor not to know
If girls have ever loved before
Silly, jealous questions
Innuendoes and suggestions are a bore
Clever men prefer the sense
Born of some experience
Fair is every bud that grows
Fair, too, is the full bloom rose
Refrain
Who cares if others kissed you before me
For I would have done the same I vow
When you tell me you fondly adore me
I am content if I kiss you now
First love may be a fancy tender
Last love, the heart’s supreme surrender
Who cares if you remember a first kiss
If only I call your last kiss mine