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That’s the Way It Happens Lyrics by Isabel Bigley, Bill Hayes (Actor)

Me and Juliet (Original Cast Recording)

1953

[JEANIE]
You're a girl from Chicago on the road with a show
Not a soul in New Haven you can say you know
You wish you were a mile or so from Michigan Lake
Home with your mother and a T-bone steak
Then along comes a fella with a smile like a kid
And he gets your attention with a timely bid
He says he knows a bistro where they give you a break
With French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak
You are shy and uncertain but he pleads and you yield
And you don't have an inkling that you're signed and sealеd
By merely telling somеone you'd be glad to partake
Of French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak
That's the way it happens
That's the way it happens
That's the way it happened to me!
[LARRY]
You're a guy in New Haven on the road with a show
There's a girl in the company that you hardly know
You watch her and you wonder if she'd like to partake
Of French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak
Then along comes a fellow who is quicker than you
And he does what you thought that you would like to do
He takes her to a bistro where they give you a break
With French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak
Now you see them together and you know in your heart
That you lost what you wanted at the very start
Because you didn't ask her if she'd like to partake
Of French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak
That's the way it happens
That's the way it happens
That's the way it happened to me!
Credits
Isabel Bigley

Isabel Bigley

Bill Hayes (Actor)

Bill Hayes (Actor)

About “That’s the Way It Happens” by Isabel Bigley

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