Writer(s): Edgar Yipsel Harburg, Harold Arlen
Oh the smith gave me ten ribs
But forgot to put a heart inside
When a man's an empty kettle
he should be on his metal and yet I'm torn apart
Just because I'm presuming that I could be kinda human
if I only had a heart
I'd be tender I'd be gentle and awful sentimental regarding love and art
I'd be friends with the sparrows and the boys
who shoot the arrows if I only had a heart
Picture me a balcony above a voice sings low
I hear a beat how sweet
Just to register emotion jealousy devotion and really feel the part
I would stay young and chipper
and I'd lock it with a zipper
if I only had a heart
When a man's an empty kettle
he should be on his metal
and yet I'm torn apart
Just because I'm presuming that I could be kinda human
if I only had a heart
Picture me a balcony above a voice sings low wherefore art thou
Romeo I hear a beat how sweet
Just to register emotion jealousy devotion and really feel the part
I would stay young and chipper
and I'd lock it with a zipper if I only had a heart
Just to register emotion jealousy devotion and really feel the part
I would stay young and chipper
and I'd lock it with a zipper
if I only had a heart
When a man's an empty kettle
he should be on his metal
and yet I'm torn apart
Just because I'm presuming that I could be kinda human
if I only had a heart
Picture me a balcony above a voice sings low wherefore art thou
Romeo I hear a beat how sweet
Just to register emotion jealousy devotion and really feel the part
I would stay young and chipper
and I'd lock it with a zipper
if I only had a heart
