Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) - Noël Coward, Peter Matz, Carlton Hayes

Mr. Irving Berlin

Often emphasizes sin

In a charming way

Mr. Coward we know

Wrote a song or two to show

Sex was here to stay

Richard Rodgers it’s true

Took a more romantic view

Of this sly biological urge

But it really was Cole

Who contrived to make the whole

Thing merge

He said the Belgians and Greeks do it

Nice young men who sell antiques do it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Monkeys whenever you look do it

Aly Khan and King Farouk do it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Louella Parsons can’t quite do it

For she’s so highly strung

Marlene might do it

But she looks far too young

Each man out there shooting crap does it

Davy Crockett in that dreadful cap does it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Our famous writers in swarms do it

Somerset and all the Maughams do it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

The Brontes felt that they must do it

Ernest Hemingway could—just—do it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

E. Allan Poe-ho!

ho!

ho!

did it

But he did it in verse

H. Beecher Stowe did it

But she had to rehearse

Tennessee Williams self-taught does it

Kinsey with a deafening report does it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

In the Spring of the year

Inhibitions disappear

And our hearts beat high

We had better face facts

Every gland that overacts

Has an alibi

For each bird and each bee

Each slap-happy sappy tree

Each temptation that lures us along

Is just Nature elle-meme

Merely singing us the same

Old song

In Texas some of the men do it

Others drill a hole-and then do it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

West Point cadets forming fours do it

People say all those Gabors do it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

My kith and kin, more or less, do it

Every uncle and aunt

But I confess to it-

I’ve one cousin that can’t

Teenagers squeezed into jeans do it

Probably we’ll live to see machines do it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Each baby bat after dark does it

In the desert Wilbur Clark does it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

We’re told that every hormone does it

Victor Borge all alone does it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Each tiny clam you consume does it

Even Liberace—we assume—does it

Let’s do it, let’s fall in love!