C Am C Am C Am
How could you believe me when I said I Love You
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I've been a liar all my life
G7 Gdim G7 Gdim G7
I've had that reputation since I was a youth
C C/B Am7 Am7/G D7 Dm7 G7
You must have been insane to think I'd ever tell the truth
C Am C Am C Am
How could you believe me when I said we'd marry
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I'd rather die than that have a wife
C Bm5-/7 E7
I know I said, "I'll make you mine"
Am Am7+ Am7 Am6 Em B7 G7
But who would know that you would go for that old line
C Am C Am D7
How could you believe me when I said "I Love You"
C Am C Fm D7
When you know I've been a liar, a good for nothing liar
C Am Dm7 G7 C
All my good for nothin' life
Bridge
F C7 F C7 F Bb Bbm
Girl: You said I'd have ev'rything, a beautiful diamond ring, a bungalow by the sea
F D7 Gm7 C7 F
Boy: You're really naïve to ever believe a full-of-baloney phoney like me
C Am C Am C Am
Girl: Say, how about the time you went to Indiana
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
Boy: I was lyin', I was down in Alabam
G7 Gdim G7 Gdim G7
Girl: You said you had some bus'ness you had to complete
C C/B Am7 Am7/G D7 G7
Boy: What I was doin' I would be a cad to repeat
C Am C Am C Am
Girl: How about the evenings you were with your mother
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
Boy: I was rompin' with another honey lamb
C Bm5-/7 E7
Girl: To think, you swore our love was real
Am Am7+ Am7 Am6 Em B7 G7
Boy: But, Baby, let us not forget that I'm a heel
C Am C Am D7
How could you believe me when I said I love you
C Am C Fm D7
When you know I've been a liar, a good for nothing liar
C Am Dm7 G7 C
All my good for nothin' life
C Am C Am C Am
Girl: And how could you believe me when I said, "I love you"
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I've been a liar all my life
G7 Gdim G7 Gdim G7
I've had that reputation since I was a youth
C C/B Am7 Am7/G D7 Dm7 G7
You must have been insane to think I'd ever tell the truth
C Am C Am C Am
And how could you believe me when I said we'd marry
D7 Am7 D7 Am7 D7
When you know I'd rather hang than be a wife
C Bm5-/7 E7
I know I said, "I'll make you mine"
Am Am7+ Am7 Am6 Em B7 G7
But, honey, you're so young, and that's an old, old line
C Am C Am D7
How could you believe me when I said "I Love You"
C Am C Fm D7
When you know I've been a liar, a good for nothing liar
C Am Dm7 G7 C
All my good for nothin' life