<br>
REPORTERS:<br>
We don't want to know about the moratorium,<br>
Or how near we are to beer,<br>
Or about the league of Nations,<br>
Or the seventeen vacations<br>
You have had since you've been here.<br>
Here's the one thing that the people of America<br>
Are beside themselves to know:<br>
They would like to know what's doing<br>
On the lady who is suing<br>
You - Diana Devereaux!<br>
<br>
Ev'rybody wants to know:<br>
What about Miss Devereaux?<br>
From the highest to the low:<br>
What about Miss Devereaux?<br>
<br>
WINTERGREEN:<br>
It's a pleasant day-<br>
That's all 1 can say!<br>
<br>
MARY: <br>
Here's the one thing we'll announce:<br>
Love's the only thing that counts!<br>
<br>
REPORTERS:<br>
People want to know:<br>
What of Devereaux?<br>
<br>
WINTERGREEN:<br>
When the One you love is near,<br>
Nothing else can interfere.<br>
<br>
ALL: <br>
When the one you love is near,<br>
Nothing else can interfere.<br>
<br>
WINTERGREEN<br>
Here's some information<br>
I would gladly give the nation:<br>
I am for the true love -Here's the only girl I do love!<br>
<br>
MARY:<br>
I love him and he loves me<br>
And that's how it will always be,<br>
So what care we about Miss Devereaux?<br>
<br>
BOTH:<br>
Who cares what the public chatters? <br>
Love's the only thing that matters! <br>
Who cares<br>
If the sky cares to fall in the sea? <br>
Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers <br>
Long as you've got a kiss that conquers? <br>
Why should I care?<br>
Life is one long jubilee,<br>
So long as I care for you<br>
And You care for me!<br>
<br>
ALL:<br>
If the sky cares to fall in the sea? <br>
Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers <br>
Long as you've got a kiss that conquers? <br>
Why should I care?<br>
Life is one long jubilee,<br>
So long as I care for you<br>
And You care for me!<br>
<br>
[PUBLISHED (SHEET MUSIC) VERSE]<br>
<br>
Let it rain and thunder!<br>
Let a million firms go under!<br>
I am not concerned with<br>
Stocks and bonds that I've been burned with.<br>
<br>
I love you and you love me,<br>
And that's how it will always be.<br>
And nothing else can ever mean a thing.<br>
Who cares what the public chatters? <br>
Love's the only thing that matters! <br>
<br>
[WHEN OF THEE I SING WAS REVIVED IN 1952. IRA GERSHWIN, CONCERNED THAT THE "BANKS FAIL IN YONKERS" REFERENCE WAS DATED, AND DECIDED TO REWRITE THE "YONKERS-CONQUERS" COUPLET. HERE ARE SOME OF THE MANY ATTEMPTS:]<br>
<br>
Who cares what (if) headlines are shrieking,<br>
Long as your kisses mine are seeking?<br>
OR<br>
Long as we two are cheek-to-cheeking?<br>
<br>
Who cares where hist'ry will place me,<br>
Long as your lovely face will face me?<br>
<br>
Who cares how history bills me,<br>
Long as you've got a kiss that thrills me?<br>
<br>
Who cares how history bills me,<br>
Long as my wife appreciates me?<br>
OR<br>
Long as your kisses dislocate me?<br>
OR<br>
Long as your kiss just decimates me?<br>
OR<br>
Long as your kiss just decimates me?<br>
OR<br>
Long as your kiss just compensates me?<br>
OR<br>
While your kiss incapacitates me?<br>
OR<br>
Long as your kiss emancipates me?<br>
OR<br>
Long as your kiss infatuates me?<br>
OR<br>
While I know that your kiss awaits me?<br>
OR (FINALLY IRA'S CHOICE:)<br>
Long as your kiss intoxicates me?<br>
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