(I Just Want To Make Love)
From the 1936 film “Palm Springs”
Words and music by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Fame doesn’t get you any fun
Struggle for fame if you must
If you’re great you’ll rate a statue
Or maybe you’ll be just a bust
But love makes a humble rumble seat
Seem as complete as a throne
Tho’ historians may high-hat you
You’ve a glory of your own
Refrain:
Columbus took a chance
And I would take a chance
As long as there’s a moon up above
But I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
Napoleon took a chance
But when I think of France
It’s Josephine that I’m thinking of
‘Cause I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
We all can’t be heroes, we all can’t be great
Right now I’ll settle for a love affair
And the dickens with affairs of state
I hear a call to arms, but sentimental arms
My banner is the moon up above
For I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
Refrain:
Columbus took a chance
And I would take a chance
As long as there’s a moon up above
But I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
Napoleon took a chance
But when I think of France
It’s Josephine that I’m thinking of
‘Cause I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
We all can’t be heroes, we all can’t be smart
So let those other fellows win their wars
I’ll be satisfied to win your heart
I hear a call to arms, but sentimental arms
My banner is the moon up above
For I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
Refrain:
Columbus took a chance
And I would take a chance
As long as there’s a moon up above
But I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
Napoleon took a chance
But when I think of France
It’s Josephine that I’m thinking of
‘Cause I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love
I don’t want an army, like brave Joan of Arc
Right now I’ll settle for a single man
And a cozy little place to park
I hear a call to arms, but sentimental arms
My banner is the moon up above
For I don’t want to make history
I just want to make love