Please Take a Letter Miss Brown

Please take a letter, Miss Brown

It is strictly confidential

And it may prove influential

With someone so essential  to my scheme

That I'm afraid to breathe her name

Please take a letter, Miss Brown

Just address it,"My beloved"

Then say I have discovered

An angel who has hovered in my dream

Just like a sweet, melodic stream

As my secretary, you should know

What love has done to me

And I think it very affable

You offer sympathy

Why are you crying, Miss Brown?

If it's love you are expressing

Then sweetheart, I'm confessing

It's you I was addressing from the start

So please, take this letter and my heart

C'mon here, and take a letter, Miss Brown

(Yes sir, Mr. Jones, I got a pencil and pad here)

You see, it's strictly confidential (mhm)

And it may prove influential (mhm)

With someone who is essential to my scheme

(I understand Mr. Jones, I understand)

I'm almost a-scared to breathe her name

(mm, mm, mm)

I told you to come on over here take a letter, Miss Brown

(I'm here, Mr. Jones, I got the pencil and pad here, I tol' you))

Just address it,"My beloved" (Your beloved)

And then say that I done discovered (discovered)

An angel who's been hoverin' in my dream

(Oh, I see, I got that too, Mr. Jones, I got that too)

Just like a sweet, melodic stream

(That man's got it bad, I know that)

You know, (What's that?) as my secretary, you should know

(know what, Mr. Jones?)

What all this love business has done to me

(I don't monkey around much with love, Mr. Jones)

And I think it's very affable

(Wait wait, what is that word, what is that word?)

Wait a minute here, what am I talkin' about

Just so you offer your sympathy

(Well, I'll do the best I can, Mr. Jones)

Wait a minute here, how come you crying, Miss Brown?

(I ain't cryin', I just got somethin' in my eye, that's all)

Well darlin', if it's love you's expressing

Then sweetheart, I'm confessing (what's that)

It's been you I was addressing from the start

(You mean to tell me you ? me all the time, you didn't tell me? Well lord, looky here)

Then I'll take your letter and your heart