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Omission by oversight I’m sure, but Jimmy Durante covered this with a particularly poignant version. It was the title track to his album of similarly analogous tunes. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.17.1.107 (talk) 22:35, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The song consists of a chorus, the section that starts, "Oh, It's a long, long time . . ." and two different verses, one describing the courting activities of a young man and one describing the disdainful reaction of the girl and the suitor's patience until she changes her mind.
The correct lyric is "Oh, It's a long, long while...". The correct lyric is a pun of Kurt Weill's name. Rather than short while, it's made into long while.