It's a Great Big Land

by Jerome Kern (music) and P. G. Wodehouse (lyrics)

Sheet music cover

[Verse]

Billy. Girls! Girls! This land is full of girls,

and I have met them all, I vow.

And most of the lot I soon forgot:

Some I did not Till now.

I have known girls who liked to flirt, and I've known girls who told their mothers;

Ah, but you're the only one who's really diffrent from the others:

[Burthen]

Billy. It's a great big land,

Full of Mollies, Kates and Daisies.

It's a large, wide land,

Simply stuffed with Mauds and Maisies:

As you travel from the Bronx to San Francisco,

Girls of every variety you view:

But in all the population of this great and growing nation

I have never found a girl like you.

From New York to Minnesota,

Ev'ry state supplied its quota,

But I've never found a girl like you.

[Verse]

Jane. Men! Men! This land is full of men,

as all the census books agree:

But try as I might, I've never quite

Found one that's right for me.

I have kept them at a distance, or I've treated them like brothers,

But I've always felt that each was just exactly like the others;

[Burthen]

Jane. It's a great big land,

Full of Toms and Dicks and Teddies;

It's a large, wide land,

Cluttered up with Jacks and Freddies:

Even though you stay at home and never travel,

Men of ev'ry known variety you view:

But in all the population of this great and growing nation

I have never found a man like you.

From New York to Minnesota,

Ev'ry state supplied its quota,

But I've never found a man like you.