Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Down with love, the flowers and rice and shoes
Down with love, the root of all midnight blues
Down with things that give you that well-known pain
Take that moon, wrap it in cellophane
[Verse 2]
Down with love, let's liquidate all its friends
Of the moon, the June, the roses, and rainbows' ends
Down with songs that moan about night and day
Down with love, yes, take it away, away
[Verse 3]
Take it away, take it away
Give it back to the birds and the bees and the Viennese
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs, and down with Cupid
Brother, let's stuff that dove, down with love
[Verse 4]
Ah, let's go
[Verse 5]
Down with things that give you that well-known pain
Take that moon and wrap it in cellophane
[Verse 6]
Down with songs that moan about night and day
Down with love, take it away, away
[Verse 7]
Take it away, take it away
Give it back to the birds and the bees and the Viennese
Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs, and down with Cupid
Brother, let's stuff that dove (Brother, let's stuff that dove)
Brother, let's stuff that dove, down with love, down with love
(Down with love) Down with love
Written by: Harburg, Harold Arlen