You can hear this recording at the Internet Archive: 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?
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