Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!
(borrowed
from George & Ira Gershwin, as sung by Ella
Fitzgerald)
filked by Susan Zahn
He
fetches cargoes
To fill up his cargo hold.
He faces
danger
And acts like a twelve-year-old.
Yet here I
hanker—
I might have had a banker!
Boy, what love has
done to me!
His nature's
funny;
Quarrelsome all the time.
And as for money
He
fights over every dime.
And here's the joker—
I might
have had a broker.
Boy, what love has done to me!
When the man
looks my way,
Does he get emphatic
When he gets
romantic…?
I want him to fly 'way!
But if he left me
I'd be all at sea.
I'm just a
princess;
I used to have everything.
His life's one big
recess—
Will I ever get a ring?
And still I love
him.
There's nobody above him.
Boy, what love has done
to me!
His brains are
minus,
Never a thought in sight.
He yells 'Your
Highness'
And lectures me day and night.
Oh, where was
my sense
To give him such a license?!
Boy, what love has
done to me!
My life he's
wrecking.
Bet you could find him now
Scrubbing the
decking
Of that old rusty scow.
You get to know life
When
dealing with a low life.
Boy, what love has done to me!
I can't hold
my head up.
A baker, a butcher?
Oh no, a
nerfherder!
Brother, I am fed up!
But if he left me, I'd
be up a tree.
How
will it wind up?
I don't know where I'm at.
He's
made his mind up;
He wants to leave me flat.
And while I
hope so…
I love the dirty so-and-so!
Boy, what love has
done to me!