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I LIKE IT
Irving Berlin
As recorded by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, 1921.

[BJ:] Say, Willie, how's your girl?
[EH:] Who? You mean Pearl?
[BJ:] Yeah. [EH:] Not so good at all.
[BJ:] What's wrong? [EH:] Why, she's buying' things,
Some diamond rings.
[BJ:] Well, she deserves a call.
[EH:] I'll say so, but she don't care.
She's bobbed her hair.
[BJ:] I'll bet you almost cried.
[EH:] Yes. [BJ:] Why don't you ask her please to stop?
[EH:] I did, and she replied.
[BJ:] What did she say?

[EH:] "I'm gonna do it if I like it," [Both:] and she likes it.
She took the eyebrow(?)
But she's a highbrow(?),
Now, that's true.
She wears her skirt terribly short.
[BJ:] Well, you bought her the cloth.
[EH:] I know I did, Ernie, but she didn't use every yard that I bought.
[Both:] And so she does it cause she likes it; she shouldn't like it.
[BJ:] She'll catch a cold. [EH:] It isn't pleasing to hear her sneezing
All day through. Katchoo! Katchoo!
[Both:] I knew a girl that sneezed too just that way.
I told her that, but all she had to say:
"I will do it if I like it, and I do."

[BJ:] You know, uh, you're a scream.
[EH:] Why? [BJ:] Now, what I mean
Is to let a girl command.
[EH:] Well, that may be so,
But you don't know
That love is oh so grand.
[BJ:] Ha-ha! Why, you're just a rube.
[EH:] Who? I'm no boob.
I called her yesterday.
[BJ:] Great! Now that's the stuff.
[EH:] And I threw some bluff.
[BJ:] What did she have to say?

[Both:] "I'm gonna do it if I like it, and I like it."
Why, we'll just tell her
That we'll compel her
To obey.
But she just ... a chance.
[BJ:] She has you in a trance,
And when you're wed, I'll bet that she will be wearing the trousers.
[EH:] But she can do it, Ernest, if she likes it. [BJ:] Ah, but you don't like it.
[EH:] Who said I don't? [Both:] When we're in love how we forgive all ... we trust;
We lap it up. A-ha, a-ha!
We are slaves to girls, and here's the proof:
If they should ask us to jump off the roof,
We're gonna do it if we like it, and we do.

I guess a lot of you who've heard this song
Will say it's awful; you may not be wrong,
But we just sing it 'cause we like it, and we do, do, do, do, doodle-oodle-oo.
Now wouldn't you?