I Won't Send Roses (from "Mack & Mabel) sung by James Bierney

I Won't Send Roses from “Mack & Mabel." Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman.
Mack & Mabel is a 1974 musical about two stars of the early cinema, Mack Sennett (January 17th, 1880 - November 5th, 1960) and Mabel Normand (November 9th, 1893 - February 23rd, 1930), and in the song the hard-bitten, cynical, older Mack warns his young star Mabel not to fall for him since he's just not the romantic type, and it'll do her no good.
Mack Sennet was born Michael Sinnott in Danville, Quebec on the 17th of January, 1880. He was the son of Irish Catholics John Sinnott and Catherine Foy. He got his start in films when he joined the Biograph Company of New York City, and later opened Keystone Studios in Edendale, California (1912). Keystone possessed the first fully enclosed film stage, and Sennett became famous as the originator of slapstick routines (such as pie-throwing and car-chases), as seen in the Keystone Cops films. He also produced short features that displayed his Bathing Beauties, many of whom went on to develop successful acting careers.
Sennett's work in sound movies was less successful, and he was bankrupted in 1933. In 1938 he was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to film comedy. He was particularly pleased with his title - “The King of Comedy”.
Mabel Normand starred in at least one hundred and sixty-seven film shorts and twenty-three full-length features, mainly for Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company, and was one of the earliest silent actors to function as her own director. She was also one of the first leading performers to appear on film without a previous background in the theatre (having begun her career in modelling), to be named in the title of her films (beginning in 1912 with “Mabel’s Lovers”), and to have her own studio (Mabel Normand Feature Film Company). Sennett’s motivation for encouraging Normand to direct is unclear. He clearly had respect for her talent as an actress, but he was, of course, in love with her!
Short clips are seen from the following films starring Mabel Normand:
Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916), Mickey (1918), Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (1913), The Water-Nymph (1913), Mabel at the Wheel (1914), What Happened to Rosa (1920), The Punctuated Romance (1914), The Extra Girl (1923) and Oh, Those Eyes (1912).
I won't send roses,
Or hold the door;
I won't remember
Which dress you wore.
My heart is too much in control,
The lack of romance in my soul
Will turn you grey, kid,
So stay away, kid.
Forget my shoulder
When you're in need.
Forgetting birthdays
Is guaranteed.
And should I love you,
You would be the last to know.
I won't send roses,
And roses suit you so.
My pace is frantic,
My temper's cross;
With words romantic
I'm at a loss.
I'd be the first one to agree
That I'm preoccupied with me.
And it's inbred, kid,
So keep your head, kid.
In me you'll find things
Like guts and nerve.
But not the kind things
That you deserve.
And so while there's a fighting chance
Just turn and go.
I won't send roses,
And roses suit you so