How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You

Here's a really funny song I arranged for barbershop quartet. It was originally done by Keepsake, but after some searching I finally found enough of the original melody and text to retranscribe it as a full-fledged barbershop arrangement. It differs a bit from the Keepsake version, so I'm calling this my own arrangement.

The text is really comical:

How could you believe me when I said I love you
When you know I've been a liar all my life?
I've had that reputation since I was a youth,
You must have been insane to think I'd tell YOU the truth!

Oh, how could you believe me when I said we'd marry
When you know I'd rather hang than have a wife?
I know I said I'd make you mine,
But who could know that you would go for THAT old line?

Then the song breaks into: It's a Sin To Tell A Lie

So be sure when you say "I love you"
It's a sin to tell a lie!
Millions of hearts have been broken
Just because these words were spoken!

"I love you, yes I do, I love you"
"Break my heart and I'll die!"
So be sure it's true when you say "I love you"
'Cause it's a sin to tell a lie!

Then goes back into a deceptive cadence (hehe) and back to the A-section, but shifts keys frequently:

Talk about the time I went to Indiana,
I was lying, I was down in Alabam!
I said I had some buisness I had to complete,
What I has doing I would be a cad to repeat!

What about the evenings I spent with my mother?
I was steppin' with another honey lamb!
To think I swore our love was real!
But baby let us not forget that I'm a heal!

Oh, tell me how could you believe me when I said I loved you
When you know I've been a liar,
Nothing but a liar,
It's a sin to tell about my doggone, good for nothin' lying life!

This is really just for enjoyment, but I hope to have my quartet sing this soon. We're also looking into The Mississippi Squirrel Revival.

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bizarre yet amusing...

I'd love to hear your music, as I've heard virtually none of it, but you always post mus. files, and never midis... I am distressed.

I also post links to my Soundclick account. You should listen to those. If I post this one, it will be my quartet singing it. I'll let you know when that happens!

PS- Download a free copy of the Trial Version of Finale '06 at Finale.com

I cannot download anything...

Why do Finale users assume everyone can download things? It's called MIDI. It's not the devil.

Also, Soundclick does not work on this computer. Haha I'm not good with that whole luck thing.

But tomorrow and on I will have internet access on my own computer, on which I do have Finale 06 installed and Soundclick does work. So I'll listen then.