"A Fine Romance" — Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' comic love song.
A fine romance, with no kisses
A fine romance, my friend this is
We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes
But youre as cold as yesterdays mashed potatoes
A fine romance, you wont nestle
A fine romance, you wont wrestle
I might as well play bridge
With my old maid aunt
I havent got a chance
This is a fine romance
A fine romance, my good fellow
You take romance, Ill take jello
Youre calmer than the seals
In the arctic ocean
At least they flap their fins
To express emotion
A fine romance with no quarrels
With no insults and all morals
Ive never mussed the crease
In your blue serge pants
I never get the chance
This is a fine romance
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- From the 1936 film Swing Time, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Kern and Fields wrote it as an ironic complaint about a romance with no romance — Sinatra sang the complaint with knowing wit.