I Like You
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“I Like You” - Sandol Stoddard Warburg
I like you and I know why
I like you because you are a good person to like
I like you because when I tell you something special
You know it’s special and you remember it a long long time
You say
Remember?
When you told me something special
And both of us remember
When I think something is important
You think it’s important too
We have good ideas when I say something funny
You laugh
I think I’m funny and you think I’m funny too
“Hah-Hah”
I like you because you know where I’m ticklish
And you don’t tickle me there except just a little tiny bit sometimes
“Stop! Stop Stop! Help! Help!”
But if you do then I know where to tickle you too
“Help!”
You know how to be silly
That’s why I like you
Boy are you ever silly
I never met anybody sillier than me till I met you
I like you because you know when it’s time to stop being silly
Maybe day after tomorrow
Maybe never
Oops too late
It’s quarter past silly
We fool around the same way all the time
Sometimes we don’t say a word
We snurkle under fences
We spy secret places
If I am a goofus on the roofus
Hollering my head off
You are one too
If I pretend I am drowning
You pretend you are saving me
If I am getting ready to pop a paper bag
Then you are getting ready to jump
That’s because you really like me
You really like me don’t you??
And I really like you back
And you like me back
And I like you back
And that’s the way we keep on going everyday
If you go away then I go away too
Or if I stay home
You send me a postcard
You don’t just say
“Well, see you around, some time, bye”
I like you a lot because of that
If I go away I send you a postcard too
And I like you because if we go away together
And if we are in Grand Central Station
And if I get lost then you are the one that is yelling for me
“Hey where are you”
“Here I am”
And I like you because when I am feeling sad
You don’t always cheer me up right away
Sometimes it is better to be sad
You can’t stand the others being so googly and gaggly every single minute
You want to think about things
It takes time
I like you because if I am mad at you
Then you are mad at me too
It’s awful when the other person isn’t
“Phooey”
They are so nice and hoo-hoo you could just about punch them in the nose
I like you because if I think I am going to throw up then you are really sorry
You don’t just pretend you are busy looking at the dirdies and all that
You say maybe it was something you ate
You say “the same thing happened to me one time”
And the same thing did
If you find two four-leaf clovers
You give me one
If I find four
I give you two
If we only find three
We keep on looking
Sometimes we have good luck
And sometimes don’t
If I break my arm and
If you break your arm too
Then it is fun to have a broken arm
I tell you about mine
You tell me about yours
We are both sorry
We write our names and draw pictures
We show every body and they wish they had a broken arm too
I like you because I don’t know why
Everything that happens is nicer with you
I can’t remember when I don’t like you
It must have been lonesome then
I like you because because because I forget why I like you
But I do
So many reasons
On the Fourth of July I like you because it’s the Fourth of July
On the Fifth of July I like you too
If you and I had some drums and some horns and some horses
If we had some hats and some flags and some fire-engines
We could be a HOLIDAY
We could be a CELEBRATION
We could be a WHOLE PARADE
See what I mean?
Even if it was the nine-hundred-and -ninety- ninth of July
Even if it was August
Even if it was way down at the bottom of November
Even if it was no place particular in January
I would go on choosing you
And you would go on choosing me
Over and over again
That’s how it would happen every time
I don’t know why
I guess I don’t know why I like you really
Why do I like you
I guess I just like you
I guess I just like you
Because I like you.
