How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life? by Burton Lane
How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life? by Burton Lane

How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?

Burton Lane * Track #3 On Royal Wedding

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How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life? by Burton Lane

Release Date
Thu Mar 08 1951
Performed by
Burton Lane
About

This song was written for the 1951 musical film Royal Wedding, in which singing and dancing siblings Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) unveil a vaudeville-like comic number for their act. The song hearkens back to the contentious comic numbers that Fred Astaire did with his own real...

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How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? Lyrics

(Chorus)
[TOM]
How could you believe me when I said "I love you" when you know I've been a liar all my life?

[ELLEN]
You've had that reputation since you were a youth

[TOM]
You must have been insane to think I'd tell you the truth

[ELLEN]
How could you believe me when you said we'd marry

[TOM]
When you know I'd rather hang than have a wife
I know I said I'd make you mine

[ELLEN]
Now wouldn't you know I would go for that old line?

[TOM]
How could you believe me when I said "I love you" when you know I've been a liar

[ELLEN]
You sure have been a liar

[TOM]
A double-crossing liar

[ELLEN]
A double-crossing liar

[TOM]
All my doggone cheatin' life

(Verse)
[ELLEN]
You said you would love me long

[TOM]
So what?

[ELLEN]
And never would do me wrong

[TOM]
Stop bending the suit

[ELLEN]
Faithful you'd always be

[TOM]
Me? Why, baby, you must be loony to trust a lower-than-low two-timer like me

[ELLEN]
You said I'd have everything

[TOM]
Get her!

[ELLEN]
A beautiful diamond ring

[TOM]
Ha ha ha!

[ELLEN]
A bungalow by the sea

[TOM]
A bungalow, yet! You're really naive to ever believe a full-of-baloney phony like me

[ELLEN]
Boy, I sure must have lost my head

[TOM]
You ain't lost nothin' you never had

(Chorus 2)
[ELLEN]
What about the time you went to Indiana?

[TOM]
I was lyin', I was down in Alabam'

[ELLEN]
You said you had some business to complete

[TOM]
What I was doin' I would be a cad to repeat

[ELLEN]
What about the evenings you was with your mother?

[TOM]
I was rompin' with another honey lamb

[ELLEN]
To think you swore our love was real

[TOM]
Baby, leave us not forget that I'm a heel

[ELLEN]
How could I believe you when you said you loved me

[TOM]
When you know I've been a liar

[ELLEN]
A good-for-nothing liar

[TOM]
All my good-for-nothing life

(Spoken interlude)
[ELLEN]
This is the last time I'll ever go to a party with you

[TOM]
Will you put that in writing?

[ELLEN]
Oh, you're always making cracks! Making cracks!

[TOM]
Like what?

[ELLEN]
You're always humiliating me. Humiliating me! Didn't your mother never teach you no manners?

[TOM]
I never had a mother. We was too poor

[ELLEN]
Hey, what's the matter with you lately? You used to tell me you loved me. You used to treat me like a high-class dame. Well, usedn't you to?

[TOM]
So I used

[ELLEN]
So now you admit it

[TOM]
I ain't admittin' nothing

[ELLEN]
I'll give you one more chance. Do you love me, or don't you?

[TOM]
No, I don't

[ELLEN]
Quit stalling! I want a direct answer!

(Outro)
[ELLEN]
You know you've been a liar

[TOM]
I know I've been a liar

[ELLEN]
A double-crossing liar

{TOM]
A double-crossing liar

[ELLEN]
All your double-crossing life

How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? Q&A

Who wrote How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?'s ?

How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? was written by Alan Jay Lerner & Burton Lane.

When did Burton Lane release How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life??

Burton Lane released How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life? on Thu Mar 08 1951.

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