How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I’ve Been a Liar All My Life?

(Chorus)
[TOM]
How could you believe me when I said "I love you" when you know I've been a liar all my life?

[ELLEN]
You've had that reputation since you were a youth

[TOM]
You must have been insane to think I'd tell you the truth

[ELLEN]
How could you believe me when you said we'd marry

[TOM]
When you know I'd rather hang than have a wife
I know I said I'd make you mine

[ELLEN]
Now wouldn't you know I would go for that old line?

[TOM]
How could you believe me when I said "I love you" when you know I've been a liar

[ELLEN]
You sure have been a liar

[TOM]
A double-crossing liar

[ELLEN]
A double-crossing liar

[TOM]
All my doggone cheatin' life

(Verse)
[ELLEN]
You said you would love me long

[TOM]
So what?

[ELLEN]
And never would do me wrong

[TOM]
Stop bending the suit

[ELLEN]
Faithful you'd always be

[TOM]
Me? Why, baby, you must be loony to trust a lower-than-low two-timer like me

[ELLEN]
You said I'd have everything

[TOM]
Get her!

[ELLEN]
A beautiful diamond ring

[TOM]
Ha ha ha!

[ELLEN]
A bungalow by the sea

[TOM]
A bungalow, yet! You're really naive to ever believe a full-of-baloney phony like me

[ELLEN]
Boy, I sure must have lost my head

[TOM]
You ain't lost nothin' you never had

(Chorus 2)
[ELLEN]
What about the time you went to Indiana?

[TOM]
I was lyin', I was down in Alabam'

[ELLEN]
You said you had some business to complete

[TOM]
What I was doin' I would be a cad to repeat

[ELLEN]
What about the evenings you was with your mother?

[TOM]
I was rompin' with another honey lamb

[ELLEN]
To think you swore our love was real

[TOM]
Baby, leave us not forget that I'm a heel

[ELLEN]
How could I believe you when you said you loved me

[TOM]
When you know I've been a liar

[ELLEN]
A good-for-nothing liar

[TOM]
All my good-for-nothing life

(Spoken interlude)
[ELLEN]
This is the last time I'll ever go to a party with you

[TOM]
Will you put that in writing?

[ELLEN]
Oh, you're always making cracks! Making cracks!

[TOM]
Like what?

[ELLEN]
You're always humiliating me. Humiliating me! Didn't your mother never teach you no manners?

[TOM]
I never had a mother. We was too poor

[ELLEN]
Hey, what's the matter with you lately? You used to tell me you loved me. You used to treat me like a high-class dame. Well, usedn't you to?

[TOM]
So I used

[ELLEN]
So now you admit it

[TOM]
I ain't admittin' nothing

[ELLEN]
I'll give you one more chance. Do you love me, or don't you?

[TOM]
No, I don't

[ELLEN]
Quit stalling! I want a direct answer!

(Outro)
[ELLEN]
You know you've been a liar

[TOM]
I know I've been a liar

[ELLEN]
A double-crossing liar

{TOM]
A double-crossing liar

[ELLEN]
All your double-crossing life