From the musical “Call Me Madam”, 1950
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Ten generations of Constantins
Lived very comf’table lives
They were contented to live in style
Supported by their wives
Daughters of men who were wealthy
Fitted them like a glove
They all married for money
I mean to marry for love
Chorus
It’s an old-fashioned idea
Marrying for love
And that old-fashioned idea’s
What I’m thinking of
Where there’s love, poets have said
Two can live as one
That’s an old-fashioned idea
But it’s being done
If she must have gold, let it be in her hair
Rubies, let them be in her lips
Diamonds, let them shine in her eyes
Just an old-fashioned romance
With a moon above
A romance, one that will end
Marrying for love
That’s the kind of love
That I’m thinking of
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: