Love Is The Darndest Thing
From the film Cross My Heart
Performed by Betty Hutton
Lyrics by Johnny Burke
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen
© 1946 Paramount Music Corp.
Lyrics:
Daughter dear, it’s time I had a little talk with you
About your future and your aims in life
The most important thing a girl should ever want to do
Is just grow up and be somebody’s wife
One fact you must keep in mind is this
What every young girl wants is wedded bliss
So I’d better teach me plenty
Because when you reach twenty
You’ll rather be a Missus than a Miss
once I met a fellow and then I fell in love
Then his heart grew mellow while counting stars above
Then sentimental words and pretty soon
I found that I was on a honey moon
And then...
Doing went the dishes, pushing a broom
Washing the windows and dusting the room
And cabbage was never my favorite perfume
Love is the darndest thing
Hang up the laundry, mop up the floor
Polish the silver and run to the store
And then have to listen to somebody snore
Love is the darndest thing
He always brought me orchids
And things that I adored
Last week I had a birthday
He gave me a brand new ironing board
Darn those potatoes are so hard to peel
Just burned my hands on a roast leg of veal
That man in the moon is a horrible heel
Love is the darndest thing
A quiet lagoon, a warm summer sky
A romantic canoe and a swan floating by
Then he opens his lips, where a kiss seems to lurk
And then he says, "Wake up or I'll be late for work!"
Boiling the coffe, frying the eggs
I guess the romance is down to the dregs
He's looking at headlines instead of my legs
Love is the darndest thing
Diapers and diets and dainties to mend
Evenings at home that we constantly spend
He still holds my hand but it's more like a friend
Love is the darndest thing
I make the nicest dinners
Then wait and wait and wait
And then just like this evening
He calls up and says he’s working late
Two lonely women, oh, where is that guy?
He should be singing you Brahm’s Lullaby
Instead he’s out saying “Here’s Mud In Your Eye”
Love is the darndest thing
Love is the darndest thing
Love is the darndest thing
Love is the darndest thing
Love is the darndest thing
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Recording History:
Studio recording not released
Recorded April 7, 1945
Orchestra conducted by Paul Weston
Running Time: 3 mins 5 secs
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