Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by Joseph A. McCarthy
Covered and performed by Fiona Apple for “The Best Is Yet to Come - The Songs of
Cy Coleman” and at “Largo @ the Coronet” respectively.
Recorded also, amongst others by Frank Sinatra (1952), Sammy Davis, Jr. (1965),
Helen Humes (1981), Elvin Jones (1984)
I'm sentimental, so I walk in the rain
I've got some habits even I can't explain
Could start for the corner, turn up in Spain
But why try to change me now
I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams galore
Cigarette ashes; there they go on the floor
I'll go away weekends, leave my keys in the door
But why try to change me now
Why can't I be more conventional, People talk, and they stare So I try
But that's not for me
Cause I can't see
My kind of crazy world
Go passing me by
So let people wonder, let 'em laugh, let 'em frown
You know I'll love you till the moon's upside down
Don't you remember I was always your clown
Why try to change me now