THEY ALL FALL IN LOVE
From the film "The Battle Of Paris" (1929)
(Cole Porter)

Gertrude Lawrence - 1929
Jack Hylton & Orchestra - 1930


Each year, when spring, quite uninvited
Gives a garden party to the world united
Ev'ryone gets so excited
They don't know what they're thinking of
Folks who've spent the winter freezin'
Whiff the balmy breeze and simply lose their reason
They know it's the open season
For falling in love

The young fall, the old fall
The red-hot mammas and the cold fall
From the lily white to the black as night
They all fall in love

The fools fall, the wise fall
The wets, the sprinkled and the drys fall
From the men who drink to the men who wink
They all fall in love

You may believe your broker is very mediocre
At playing with your stocks and bonds
At business he may be a blunder
Yet he's a perfect wonder when he plays with the blondes

Old maids who object fall
Old men you never would suspect fall
Even babies who can hardly crawl, fall
'Cause they all fall in love

The wags fall, the boobs fall
The gold-brick sellers and the rubes fall
From the underbred to the overfed
They all fall in love

The good very oft fall
The hard-shelled Baptists and the soft fall
Just to prove they believe in the fall of Eve
They all fall in love

The solemn undertaker is shyer than a Quaker
As long as he is filling graves
But let him meet a missus who hasn't prejudices
And he misbehaves

The angels on high fall
And men like Lindbergh who can fly, fall
Even boxers much too pure to fall, fall
'Cause they all fall in love

The pet parakeets fall
The English sparrows in the streets fall
From the doves of peace to the wildest geese
They all fall in love

Small bookworms on the shelves fall
Amoebas even for themselves fall
From the early worms to the latest germs
They all fall in love

When strolling in a thicket, if you pick up a cricket
And put him in a shady tree
You'll find a little later that he's become the pater
Of a family

The pigs fall, the sows fall
The bull walks in and all the cows fall
Even mules that never fall at all, fall
'Cause they all fall in love