Let's Not Talk About Love

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Let’s talk about love, that wonderful thing Let’s blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring Let’s gaze at that moon and try to believe We’re Venus and Adonis, or Adam and Eve Let’s throw away anxiety, let’s quite forget propriety Respectable society, the rector and his piety And contemplate l’amour in all its infinite variety My dear, let’s talk about love. Pretend you’re Chopin and I’ll be George Sand We’re on the Grand Canal and, oh baby, it’s grand! Let’s mention Walkures and helmeted knights I’m beautiful Bruennhilde, you’re Siegfried in tights Let’s curse the asininity of tribal consanguinity Let’s praise the masculinity of Dietrich’s new affinity Let’s picture Cleopatra saying “Scram” to her virginity My dear, let’s talk about love. The weather’s so warm and you are so cute Let’s dream about Tahiti and tropical fruit I’ve always said men were simply deevine (Did you know Peggy Joyce was once a pupil of mine?) Let’s gather miscellania on Oberon’s Titania Or ladies even branier who’ve moved to Pennsylvania (Bucks County, so I hear, is just a nest of nymphomania) My dear, let’s talk about love. My buddies all tell me selectees Are expected by ladies to neck-tease I could talk about love and why not? But believe me, it wouldn’t be so hot So Let’s talk about frogs, let’s talk about toads Let’s try to solve the riddle why chickens cross roads Let’s talk about games, let’s talk about sports Let’s have a big debate about ladies in shorts Let’s question the synonymy of freedom and autonomy Let’s delve into astronomy, political economy Or if you’re feeling biblical, the book of Deuteronomy But let’s not talk about love. Let’s ride the New Deal, like Senator Glass Let’s telephone Ickes and order more gas Let’s curse the Old Guard and Hamilton Fish Forgive me, dear, if Fish is your favorite dish Let’s heap some more profanities on Hitler’s inhumanities Let’s argue if insanity’s the cause of his inanities Let’s weigh the Shubert Follies with The Ear-rl Carroll Vanities But let’s not talk about love. Let’s talk about drugs, let’s talk about dope Let’s try to picture Paramount minus Bob Hope Let’s start a new dance, let’s try a new step Or investigate the source of Mrs. Roosevelt’s pep Why not discuss, my dee-arie The life of Wallace Bee-ery Or bring a jeroboam on And write a drunken poem on Astrology, mythology Geology, philology Pathology, psychology Electro-physiology Spermology, phrenology I owe you an apology But let’s not talk about love. Let’s speak of Lamarr, that Hedy so fair Why does she let Joan Bennett wear all her old hair? If you know Garbo, then tell me this news Is it a fact the Navy’s launched all her old shoes? Let’s check on the veracity of Barrymore’s bibacity And why his drink capacity should get so much publacity Let’s even have a huddle over Ha’vard Univassity But let’s not talk about love. Let’s wish him good luck, let’s wish him more pow’r That Fiorella fella, my favorite flow’r Let’s get some champagne from over the seas And drink to Sammy Goldwyn Include me out please. Let’s write a tune that’s playable, a ditty swing-and-swayable Or say whatever’s sayable about the Tow’r of Ba-abel Let’s cheer for the career of itty-bitty Betty Gra-abel But let’s not talk about love. In case you play cards, I’ve got some right here So how about a game o’ gin-rummy, my dear? Or if you feel warm and bathin’s your whim Let’s get in the all-together and enjoy a short swim No honey, I suspect you all Of bein’ intellectual And so, instead of gushin’ on Let’s have a big discussion on Timidity, stupidity, solidity, frigidity Avidity, turbidity, Manhattan and viscidity Fatality, morality, legality, finality Neutrality, reality, or Southern hospitality Pomposity, verbosity You’re loosing your velocity But let’s not talk about love.