Slinky Johnson, if I just had you here
To tell you what's on my mind
I ain't seen you in the best of a year
But I understand your kind
You'll come repenting for the way you carried on
Hoping I'll be relentin' and let bygones be gone
Though I love you still, our love affair's through
I ain't takin' no chances with you
You're just a thief in the night
Nothin' but a thief in the night
You came without a warnin'
And left before the mornin' broke through
I never knew I wouldn't see you again
You're an education in men
The one I had believed in
Turned out to be a thief in the night
And oh how I've worried and fretted
And got myself in a pet
Wishin' we'd never met
Mopin' and hopin' and swearin' I'd square a pound yet
Folks declare my eyes are always wet
Because a thief in the night
Stole my heart and vanished from sight
I knew I'd come to grievin'
Believin' in a thief in the night
Come in... so it's you, Slinky Johnson!
Turned up again like an imitation penny.
Boy, you're lookin' mighty sharp!
You musta hit the numbers!
I ain't jettin', I know you couldn't thumb your way across all that water and get to Paris.
Just a minute, don't start off callin' me 'Ruby'.
My name has changed: I'm now known as 'Madame Roberta,' the celebrated cortesian.
Here, here! Don't try warmin' up to me!
Take it easy, Greasy, you've got a long way to slide!
Far as I'm concerned, you're just a lost ball in the high weeds.
What? Give you another chance? And go back on the release?
Never no chance, you dirty, double-crossin' h-comrade new-earthworm!
You're everything that begins with the letter 'S' and the letter 'B'!
So you can't take it, huh?
Well, if you don't like the way I'm beatin' up my gums, let the doorknob hit ya in the middle o' the back!
And don't go braggin' around Harlem you had an affair with me!
Affair with me, Hell!
If you call that little thing an 'affair'!
You're just a thief in the night
Stole my heart and vanished from sight
I knew I'd come to grievin'
Believin' in a thief in the night!