"What's New?" — Burke and Haggart's 1939 question of devastating irony.
Writer(s): burke/haggart
What's new?
How is the world treating you?
You haven't changed a bit
Lovely as ever, i must admit
What's new?
How did that romance come through?
We haven't met since then
Gee, but it's nice to see you again
What's new?
Probably i'm boring you
But seeing you is grand
And you were sweet to offer your hand
I understand. adieu!
Pardon my asking what's new
Of course you couldn't know
I haven't changed, i still love you so
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- Written by Johnny Burke and Bob Haggart in 1939. The "what's new?" to someone you once loved — the social question masking the fact that nothing matters as much as the person asking it. Sinatra's recording on Only the Lonely (1958) is the benchmark.