If you can't tell the world lyrics

People who gossip are people who lie

So try to keep out of their way

Many a girl saw her happiness die

'Cause someone had too much to say.

If you can't tell the world

She's a good little girl

Then just say nothing at all.

Who cares what

She once used to be

As long as she's sorry

She needs sympathy.

So don't give away

What you know of her life

Someday she may make

A wonderful wife.

If you can't tell the world

She's a good little girl

Then just say nothing at all.

Homes have been broken

And hearts filled with pain

By stories that shouldn't be told.

Dreams have been dreamed

And then shattered in vain

Before a new scandal grows old.

If you can't tell the world

She's a good little girl

Then just say nothing at all.

Who cares what

She once used to be

As long as she's sorry

She needs sympathy.

So don't give away

What you know of her life

Someday she may make

A wonderful wife.

If you can't tell the world

She's a good little girl

Then just say nothing at all.

• Artist:Annette Hanshaw