Leave It to Jane

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

Sheet music cover

[Verse]

(Bessie.) Our gentle Jane,

When it comes to brain

Can make a quite a show

(Jane.) It's wicked you know,

To flatter me so.

(Stub.) She's cooler than ice

So take my advice:

If you've a problem,

Don't you think twice:

[Refrain]

(Bessie & Stub.) Leave it to Jane, Jane, Jane.

(Jane.) (I don't know why you should make me plot and plan for you)

(Bessie & Stub.) She is the girl with brain!

(Jane.) (I always try to do ev'rything I can for you)

(Bessie & Stub.) No problem you can wish on her gives a strain:

She'll tackle gaily a score or more daily.

If something is on your mind.

(Jane.) (And I can see that there is not a doubt of it.)

(Bessie & Stub.) Comfort you soon will find;

(Jane.) Leave it to me, I will soon get you out of it)

(Bessie & Stub.) If you have started worrying Kindly refrain.

(Bessie, Stub & Jane.) And just hand over the whole thing to Jane!

[Verse]

(Jane.) I've been that way,

From a child they say.

(Stub.) When she was but two,

Our Jane always knew

The right thing to do.

(Bessie.) Her tact and sense

Were simply immense:

(Stub.) That's why we say with

Fervor intense:

[Refrain]

(Bessie & Stub.) Leave it to Jane, Jane, Jane.

(Jane.) (I don't know why you should make me plot and plan for you)

(Bessie & Stub.) She is the girl with brain!

(Jane.) (I always try to do ev'rything I can for you)

(Bessie & Stub.) No problem you can wish on her gives a strain:

She'll tackle gaily a score or more daily.

If something is on your mind.

(Jane.) (And I can see that there is not a doubt of it.)

(Bessie & Stub.) Comfort you soon will find;

(Jane.) Leave it to me, I will soon get you out of it)

(Bessie & Stub.) If you have started worrying Kindly refrain.

(Bessie, Stub & Jane.) And just hand over the whole thing to Jane!