After the Honeymoon

A popular song from 1911
Words and music by Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Before you get married your sweetheart
    Is your sweetheart to the dot
    But after you marry your sweetheart, girls
    Becomes your sweetheart not
    Of course there are many exceptions
    To most every rule, but then
    In this very case, any time, any place
    Eleven times out of ten

Chorus:
After the honeymoo-oon
After the honeymoon
I’ll wager my life there are millions of men
Who wish that their wives were their sweethearts again
After it’s Mister and Missus
There’s often a year between kisses
A sweet wedding cake only gives you an ache
After the honeymoon

  1. Before your engagement you want your love
    To stand and stand around
    But after the wedding, it changes to
    “For goodness sake sit down!”
    You want who you want in the summer
    You get who you want that fall
    But after you’ve got who you wanted, it’s not
    The one whom you wanted at all

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: