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Down With Love
Music : Harold Arlen
Lyrics : E.Y.'Yip' Harburg
From : Hooray For What ?, 1937
Verse. You, sons of Adam, you, daughters of Eve,
The time has come to take your love-torn hearts
Off your sleeve
Look, look about you
What do you see?
Love-sick, love-lorn, love-wrecked, love-worn
Boo-hoo-manity
There'll be no peace on earth until this curse
Is wiped off from this love mad universe
Are we mice or men? Can't you see the light?
Come you fellow victims, let's unite.
Chorus. Down with love
The flowers and rice and shoes
Down with love
The root of all midnight blues
Down with things
That give you that well known pain
Take that moon and wrap it in cellophane
Down with love
Let's liquidate all its friends
Moon and June and roses and
Rainbow's ends
Down with songs
That moan about night and day
Down with love
Yes, take it away, away
Away, take it away
Give it back to the birds and the bees
And the Viennese
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs
Down with Cupid
Brother, let's stuff that dove
Down with love!
