Let's Fall In Love - Gerry Mulligan

There's a game in the world, a little bit of cat and mouse With the boys and the girls, and if I had to ante up I'd bet on the birds, 'cause they don't have to get caught up With the boys and the girls and a little game of cat and mouse Mommy did it, daddy did it The funny little monkeys in the zoo will do it The stupid does it, the ugly do it Only the unlucky of us get to do it Let's fall in love (let's fall in love) There's a game in the world, a little bit of cat and mouse With the boys and the girls, and if I had to ante up I'd bet on the birds, 'cause they don't have to walk around With the boys and the girls and a little bit of cat and mouse Mommy did it, daddy did it Even though I bet they wish they really didn't Mary did it, Joey did it Even little baby, baby Jesus did it Yuppies do it, junkies do it The funny little monkeys in the zoo will do it The stupid does it, the foolish do it Only the unlucky of us get to do it Let's fall in love Let's fall in love Haah-haah-haah-haah Haah-haah-haah-haah Haah-haah-haah-haah Mommy did it, daddy did it The funny little monkeys in the zoo will do it The stupid does it, the ugly do it Only the unlucky of us get to do it.

We might have been meant for each other To be or not to be Let our hearts discover I have a feeling It's a feeling I'm concealing I don't know why It's just a mental Incindental, sentimental alibi But I adore you So strong for you Why go on stalling I'm falling Love is calling Why be shy? Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we Fall in love? Our hearts are made of it Let's take a chance Why be afraid of it? Let's close our eyes And make our own paradise Little we know of it Still we can try To make a go of it Now we might have been meant for each other To be or not to be Let our hearts discover Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we Fall in love? Now is the time for it While we are young Let's fall in love Let's fall in love Let's fall in love

Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we fall in love? Our hearts are made of it Let's take a chance Why be afraid of it? Let's close our eyes And make our own paradise Little we know of it Still we can try To make a go of it We might have been meant for each other To be or not to be, let our hearts discover Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we fall in love? Now is the time for it While we are young Let's fall in love We might have been meant for each other To be or not to be, let our hearts discover Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we fall in love? Now is the time for it While we are young Let's fall in love

And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of yesterday The music of the years gone by. Sometimes I wonder, how I spend The lonely nights Dreaming of a song The melody Haunts my reverie And I am once again with you When our love was new And each kiss an inspiration But that was long ago And now my consolation is in the stardust of a song Besides the garden wall, when stars are bright You are in my arms The nightingale Tells his fairytale Of paradise, where roses grew Though I dream in vain In my heart it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain.