Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?

Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?
music by George Gershwin (left
lyric by Ira Gershwin (right)

Oh, it really wasn't my intention to disregard convention;
It was just an impulse that had to be obeyed.
Beacon Hill behavior we've been scorning,
But I'll not go in mourning---
Though my reputation is blemished, I'm afraid...

What's done is done.
But wasn't---and isn't---it fun?

Honestly, I thought you wouldn't;
Naturally, you thought you couldn't.
And probably we shouldn't---
But aren't you kind of glad we did?

Actually, it was all blameless.
Nevertheless, they'll call it shameless.
So the lady shall be nameless;
But aren't you kind of glad we did?

Socially, I'll be an outcast:
Obviously, we dined alone.
On my good name there will be doubt cast---
With never a sign of any chaperone...

No matter how they construe it---
Whether or not we have to rue it---
Whatever made us do it---
Say, aren't you kind of glad we did?

Honestly, I thought I wouldn't; naturally, I thought I couldn't.
And probably I shouldn't---
But aren't you kind of glad we did?
The community will call me viper.
The opportunity should have been riper.
We'll have to pay the piper---But what we did we're glad we did.

Supper was quite above suspicion;
Milk in the glasses when they'd clink.
Listening to a tired musician---
But what is it Mrs. Grundy's going to think?

I'm a rounder, a bounder, a cad, a Boston blighter---
You shouldn't be seen alone with your typewriter.
Let's turn to something brighter:
Whatever we did, we're glad we did.

Unfortunately, we had to break up.
Eventually I knew you'd wake up.
Now true love makes us make up,
And aren't you kind of glad we did?