From the production “Tails Up”, 1919 Words by Ronald Jeans Music by Philip Braham
Sheet Music
Accompaniment
Lyrics
Refrain:
I don’t know what attracted my attention
I don’t know if I even stopped to think
I don’t know if I smiled without intention
And I don’t know if I really saw him wink
I don’t know if I may have been mistaken
But I thought I saw a flutter of his lid
I don’t know how I came to let my bag fall
But I do know he was very glad I did
Refrain
I don’t know if he really engineered it
I don’t know if his strategy was planned
I don’t know how we got squeezed in the doorway
And I don’t know why I let him hold my hand
I don’t know whether he was going homeward
Or even if he lived upon that line
I don’t know if we got out at his station
But I know we never got as far as mine
Refrain:
I don’t know if he saw my hesitation
I don’t know what my mother would have said
So I said, “Just drop me near West Hampstead station”
And I don’t know how we reached the Ritz instead
I don’t know if he meant the things he whispered
I don’t know what was really in his mind
I don’t know what you think he did that evening
But I do know he did nothing of the kind