Mad About The Boy-Gertrude Lawrence/Connie Haines

[ti:Mad About The Boy] [ar:Gertrude Lawrence] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mad About The Boy - Gertrude Lawrence/Connie Haines [00:12.04]I met him at a party just a couple of years ago [00:16.17]He was rather over hearty and ridiculous [00:19.44]But as I'd seen him on the screen [00:22.46]He cast a certain spell [00:26.61] [00:27.73]I basked in his attraction for a couple of hours or so [00:32.01]His manners were a fraction too meticulous [00:35.64]If he was real or not I couldn't tell [00:40.25]But like a silly fool I fell [00:47.33] [00:48.36]Mad about the boy [00:51.07]I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy [00:55.57]I'm so ashamed of it but must admit [00:59.14]The sleepless nights I've had about the boy [01:04.82] [01:05.60]On the silver screen [01:07.77]He melts my foolish heart in every single scene [01:12.39]Although I'm quite aware that here and there [01:15.71]Are traces of the cad about the boy [01:21.41] [01:22.25]Lord knows I'm not a fool girl [01:25.68] [01:26.21]I really shouldn't care [01:29.71]Lord knows I'm not a schoolgirl [01:32.24]In the flurry of her first affair [01:40.45]Will it ever cloy this odd diversity of misery and joy [01:47.53]I'm feeling quite insane and young again [01:51.10]And all because I'm mad about the boy [01:58.89] [02:31.43]I'm hardly sentimental [02:35.50]Love isn't so sublime [02:39.12]I have to pay my rental [02:42.02]I can't afford to waste much time [02:49.31]If I could employ [02:51.85]A little magic that would finally destroy [02:56.05]This dream that pains me and enchains me [02:59.68]But I can't because I'm mad about the boy