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

[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 was a youth

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

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

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

[ELLEN]
Now wouldn't youz 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-crossin' liar

[ELLEN]
A double-crossin' liar

[TOM]
All my doggone cheatin' life

[ELLEN]
You said you would love me long

[TOM, spoken]
So what?

[ELLEN]
And never would do me wrong

[TOM, spoken]
Stop bendin' the suit

[ELLEN]
Faithful you'd always be

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

[ELLEN]
You said I'd have everything

[TOM, spoken]
Get her!

[ELLEN]
A beautiful diamond ring

[TOM, spoken]
Ha ha ha!

[ELLEN]
A bungalow by the sea

[TOM, spoken]
A bungalow, yet!

[TOM]
You're really naive to ever believe
A full-of-baloney phony like me
[ELLEN, spoken]
Boy, I sure must have lost my head

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

[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 you had 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-nothin' liar

[TOM]
All my good-for-nothin' life

[ELLEN, spoken]
This is the last time I'll ever go to a party with you

[TOM, spoken]
Will you put that in writin'?

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

[TOM, spoken]
Like what?

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

[TOM, spoken]
I never had a mother, we was too poor

[ELLEN, spoken]
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, spoken]
So I used

[ELLEN, spoken]
So now you admit it

[TOM, spoken]
I admit nothin'

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

[TOM, spoken]
No, I don't

[ELLEN, spoken]
Quit stalling around, I want a direct answer!

[ELLEN]
You know you've been a liar

[TOM]
I know I've been a liar

[ELLEN]
A double-crossin' liar

[TOM]
A double-crossin' liar

[ELLEN]
All your good-for-nothin' life