oh liverpool lou lovely liverpool lou why can t you behave just like the other girls do why must my poor heart be following you stay home and love me my liverpool lou when love is pleasing and love is teasing and love is a pleasure when first it is new love as love it grows it older and love it grows colder and fear is the way love like the more i need you oh liverpool lou lovely liverpool lou why can t you behave just like the other girls do why must my poor heart be following you stay home and love me my liverpool lou when i go a walking i hear people talking school children playing i know what they re saying they re saying you ll grieve me that you will deceive me some morning you ll leave me all packed up and gone oh liverpool lou lovely liverpool lou why can t you behave just like the other girls do why must my poor heart be following you stay home and love me my liverpool lou