Let's Not Talk About Love - Danny Kaye

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 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 Bable

Let’s cheer for the career of itty-bitty Betty Grable

But lets 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 cause of Mrs. Roosevelt’s pep

Why not discuss, my dearie

The life of Wallace Beery

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

And in case you play card, I have 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

I’m losing my velocity

But lets not talk about love