One Lie Leads To Another

About This Song

“One Lie Leads to Another” was written by Tommy Edwards, in the late 1940s. He was the first African-American singer to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (for “It’s All In The Game”).

Lyrics

Oh, one lie leads to another
Two lies covers the other
Three lies, now you’re in an awful fix
Four lies, you’re getting in deeper
Five lies piling up steeper
Get wise or you’re going be telling six

You’d better listen and
Take care, don’t you tell seven
Beware, you won’t go to heaven
Up there the good with the bad don’t mix
If you’re true to each other
And you lovе one another
From the day you fall
Thеn you will never have to tell any lies at all

(One lie) Leads to another
(Two lies) Covers the other
(Three lies) Now you’re in an awful fix
(Four lies) Getting in deeper
(Five lies) Piling up steeper
(Get wise) Or you’re going be telling six

Recordings

1950

Tony Bennett recorded “One Lie Leads To Another” on October 1, 1950. Marty Manning wrote the arrangement.

Release History

1950	Columbia 78: 39060
1950	Columbia 45: 4-39060
2004	Sepia Records CD: SEPIA 1028 — The Young Tony Bennett
2007	Proper CD: PROPERBOX 121 — Young Tony
2011	Columbia The Complete Collection  —Disc 3 — The Columbia Singles Vol. 1