Mad About the Boy-Gertrude Lawrence

[ti:Mad About the Boy] [ar:Gertrude Lawrence] [al:My Ship] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mad About the Boy - Gertrude Lawrence [00:12.41]I met him at a party just a couple of years ago [00:16.43]He was rather over hearty and ridiculous [00:19.79]But as I'd seen him on the screen [00:22.71]He cast a certain spell [00:26.94] [00:27.92]I basked in his attraction for a couple of hours or so [00:32.48]His manners were a fraction too meticulous [00:36.07]If he was real or not I couldn't tell [00:40.53]But like a silly fool I fell [00:48.09] [00:49.09]Mad about the boy [00:51.73]I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy [00:56.15]I'm so ashamed of it but must admit [00:59.91]The sleepless nights I've had about the boy [01:05.08] [01:06.18]On the silver screen [01:08.60]He melts my foolish heart in every single scene [01:13.07]Although I'm quite aware that here and there [01:16.60]Are traces of the cad about the boy [01:22.23] [01:23.00]Lord knows I'm not a fool girl [01:26.92]I really shouldn't care [01:30.52]Lord knows I'm not a schoolgirl [01:33.16]In the flurry of her first affair [01:41.43]Will it ever cloy this odd diversity of misery and joy [01:48.13]I'm feeling quite insane and young again [01:51.97]And all because I'm mad about the boy [01:59.92] [02:32.90]I'm hardly sentimental [02:36.71]Love isn't so sublime [02:40.31]I have to pay my rental [02:43.22]I can't afford to waste much time [02:50.35]If I could employ [02:53.12]A little magic that would finally destroy [02:57.22]This dream that pains me and enchains me [03:00.95]But I can't because I'm mad about the boy