She Didn't Say 'Yes'
from musical love story "The Cat And The Fiddle"
music by Jerome Kern
lyrics by Otto Harbach
1931
'[...] I strain every nerve to make him talk turkey, but I can't pin him down. He doesn't say Yes and he doesn't say No.'
'There's a song called that ... or, rather, "She didn't say Yes and she didn't say No". I Sing it a good deal in my bath. It goes like this.'
I started to render the refrain in a pleasant light baritone, but desisted on receiving Agatha Christie abaft the frontal bone.
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Chapter 9