A blues novelty from 1921. Revised 1929, renewed in 1950. Words and music by W. C. Handy.
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For love, love, oh loveless love, it’s messy
You set our hearts on goal-less goals, real messy
With dream-less dreams
And scheme-less schemes
We wreck our loveboats on the shoals
We s-o-s for help by wireless wire
And the wreckage of desire
We sigh for wings like Noah’s dove
Just to fly away from loveless love
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Love, oh love, oh loveless love
Has set our hearts on goal-less goals
From milkless milk and silkless silk
We are growing used to soulless souls
Such grafting times we never saw
That’s why we have a pure food law
In ev’rything we find a flaw
Even love, oh love, oh loveless love
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