LIKE LOVE
Ellington / Bob Russell

as rec by Vikki Carr w Orch cond by Bob Florence  1966


Drop the politics and pretensions,
Skip the subject of new dimensions,
let's begin about our intentions;
Do you happen to like love?

Nothin' lower than high type theories?
Bring them up and I get the wearies!
So the Dodgers will blow the series!
Do you happen to like love?

I happen to love love,
I happen to have my mind on it!
Speak to me of love
And maybe you'll find
That love is a thing
That is bigger than big,
Love is a thing
That you happen to dig!

Take your lectures and take your studies,
Give them back to the fuddy-duddies!
Let's pretend we're a pair of buddies
Who just happen to like love!

Let's forget the Olympic races,
Skip the stuff about foreign places,
let's be gettin' right down to cases,
Do you happen to like love?

Drop the fish in the Arctic Ocean?
What an utterly foolish notion!
Just how basic is your emotion?
Do you happen to like love?

I happen to love love,
Happen to have my mind on it!
Speak to me of love
And maybe you'll find
That love is a treat
That you shouldn't avoid,
Might even beat
A discussion of Freud!

Take your lectures and goodly habits,
Give 'em back to the squares and babbitts!
Let's pretend we're a pair of rabbits
Who just happen to like love!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2011)