LYRICS: I'm Not the Marrying Kind

Album:

Follow That Dream

Lyrics / Music:

Sherman Edwads / Mack David, 1961

Catalog number:

EPA 4368

Recording date:

July 2, 1961

Release date:

April 8, 1962

Observation:

- Part of the soundtrack for the film "Follow That Dream" (1962)

- Re-released on "C'mon Everybody" (1971)

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LYRICS

Show me a girl with a dimple on her cheek

Butter melts in her mouth when she opens it to speak

Show me a girl who is acting so refined

And I'll show you a girl with one thing on her mind

So I say, "You know what?"

She says, "What?", I say, "What?

Oh, I'm not the marrying kind"

"For you've got what it takes

And it takes what you've got

But I'm not the marrying kind"

"Don't kiss me, don't claw me

Don't pet me, don't paw me

I won't leave my freedom behind"

So I say, "You know what?"

She says, "What?", I say, "What?

Oh, I'm not the marrying kind"

"You know what?", She says, "What?"

I say, "What? Thanks a lot

But I'm not the marrying kind"

"Don't kiss me, don't claw me

Don't pet me, don't paw me

And I won't leave my freedom behind"

So I say, "You know what?"

She says, "What?", I say, "What?

Oh, I'm not the marrying kind"

"I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not

Now you've gotten what I'm not

I'm not the marrying kind"

"Oh, I'm not the marrying kind"

"No, I'm not the marrying kind"