You’ll Never Know Just What Tears Are

Song lyrics to You’ll Never Know Just What Tears Are, written by Ted Healy and His Stooges (better known as the Three Stooges).

You’ll Never Know What Tears Are was originally performed for their vaudeville stage act. However, it’s been filmed by the Stooges multiple times as well.

You’ll never know just what tears are
Till you’ve cried like you made me cry.
How a broken heart aches, though it’s broken in fun,
You’ll never know till you’ve met the wrong one.
To love and kiss and lose it all,
And to find every promise a lie.
You’ll never know just what tears are
Till you’ve cried like you’ve made me cry!

You’ll Never Know What Tears Are was performed in the movies for the first time in their 1930 feature film, Soup to Nuts. The short version of this song later performed again in their short Beer and Pretzels (1933), their guest appearance in Dancing Lady & Fugitive Lovers (1933) and by Moe, Larry, and Curly in their shorts, Horses’ Collars (1935), Half Shot Shooters (1936), and A Ducking They Did Go (1939)