A 1929 popular song. Words by Jack Yellen. Music by Milton Ager. Song suggested by Laurence Rubenstein.
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He’s not good-looking, not handsome or tall
I couldn’t tell you how he made me fall
There’s nothin’ to him but still and all
He’s a good man to have around
He’s not a stepper, he can’t even waltz
In conversation, he stammers and halts
Poor little sweet man, with all his faults
He’s a good man to have around
Oh, sometimes I fly off the lid
“Go this minute,” I shout, but if he did
I would die without him
He’s not exactly my idea of
The perfect lover from Heaven above
But what’s the diff’rence? The man you love
Is a good man to have around
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You wouldn’t like him, he’s nothin’ to show
Not to be trusted, I learned long ago
Just good for nothin’, but I don’t know
He’s a good man to have around
When dinner’s over, I turn and he’s gone
I hear him sneak in along about dawn
I don’t say nothin’ ’cause from then on
He’s a good man to have around
And sometimes when he starts to row
I don’t care if I live, But he knows how
To make me forgive him
Bought a revolver, I don’t mean for fun
I ought to shoot him for things that he’s done
Can’t pull the trigger, the son-‘fa-gun
He’s a good man to have around