Outside Of You

Written for: Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Performer: Dick Powell
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

Verse:

Gee, it's great to be,
Absolutely free,
No one orders me around;
The girls have always found
I simply won't be bound.
Now I have a fear,
Romance may be near,
And you're the one to blame, my dear.

Chorus:

I have always been a sort of woman hater,
And I never met the girl I'd cater to.
I considered ev'ry girl and agitator,
Outside of you.
Look at Cleopatra and Madame DuBarry,
They were pretty bad if history is true,
And I never saw the girl that I would marry,
Outside of you.
I won't deny
The fact that I
Thought women were a curse.
But now my hate
Has turned to love,
I don't know which is worse.
So, if you don't mind the fuss and all the bother,
I would like to have a wife, a kid or two,
And they should resemble no one but their father,
Outside of you.