A 1956 Popular Song, written for “Say It with Music.” [Unpublished].
Earlier title: “Love Leads to Weddings”.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©10 May 1956.
The sheet music.
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics:
Love leads to marriage;
That leads to divorce:
That leads to lawyers—
Expensive, of course.
Private detectives
Who watch all your moves;
That leads to charges
Which nobody proves.
If there are children,
You hear from the court,
Father can’t see them
But pays their support.
Love is the start of it;
I want no part of it.
Love leads to marriage,
Divorce and to lawyers,
Detective and charges,
Supporting of children—
A youngster in school falls
And only a fool falls in love.