I Learned About Love From Her - Original - Cab Calloway and His Orchestra

We met one evening when the moon was bright

And when she gave me the eye I thought that I would die

She had such curly hair and teeth of white

And I learned about love from her

And when she’d hold me in her arms so tight

Every kiss was like a torch, my lips, they used to scorch

That gal was just a mess of dynamite!

And I learned about love from her

You’ve heard about that man from Tennessee

Say, he came along one day and he stole my gal away;

Now she’s teaching him what she taught me

When I learned about love from her

At night I sit alone so sad and blue

Like a monkey on the shelf;

say, I could hang myself!

There’s a gang of things I didn’t learn to do

When I learned about love from her

Went to school, went to school, just to learn the game of love

Once a fool, stays a fool, that’s one thing I’m certain of

There’s no one beneath the Sun, beneath this sky above

Who can tell upon a given Sunday where his gal will be on Monday

Now my gal and I are far apart

And with teardrops in my eyes, say, I realize

I didn’t learn how to mend a busted heart

When I learned about love from her!