You Didn't Have To Be So Nice

You Didn't Have To Be So Nice - The Lovin' Spoonful

You didn't have to be so nice

I would have liked you anyway

If you had just looked once

Or twice and gone upon your quiet way

Today I said the time was right for me

To follow you

I knew I'd find you in a day or two and it's true

You came upon a quiet day

You simply seemed to take your place

I knew that it would be that way

The minute that I saw your face

And when we've had a few more days

I wonder if I'll get to say

You didn't have to be so nice

I would have liked you anyway

(Be so nice would have liked)

Today I said the time was right for me to follow you

I knew that I would find you in a day or two

You didn't have to be so nice

I would have liked you anyway

If you had just looked once or

Twice and gone upon your quiet way