Isn't It a Pity

Why did I wander

Here and there and yonder

Wasting precious time

For no reason or rhyme

Isn't it a pity

Isn't it a crime

My journey's ended

Everything is splendid

Meeting you today

Has given me a wonderful idea

Here I stay

It's a funny thing

I look at you

I get a thrill I never knew

Isn't it a pity we never met before

Here we are at last

It's like a dream

The two of us, a perfect team

Isn't it a pity, we never met before

Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted

And with the neighbors

Leak at silly labors

What joys untasted

My nights were sour

Hour after hour

Let's forget the past, let's both agree

That I'm for you and you're for me

And it's such a pity, we never, never, met before

Can you imagine all the lonely years we've wasted

Fishing for salmon

Losing at backgammon

What joys untasted

You watching Dinah

Me somewhere in China

Happiest of men, I'll always be

If only you will say to me

It's an awful pity we never, never met before

That we never, never, met before