From the musical “King of Cadonia”, 1910
Words by M. E. Rourke
Music by Jerome D. Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’m tired of every game but one
Which one, you ought to know
Comparing love with other games
The other all seem slow
Than love no game’s more popular
No matter where you search
It’s played all ’round this great big world
And ended in a church
Refrain
Mother and father went to church one day
Many years ago
Also my father and my mother, too
As perhaps you know
Their fathers’ fathers and their mothers
Went and did just the same
So, why can’t you and I go, too
For love is a wonderful game
- If love is such a lovely game
I know what I will do
Provided that my little plan
Appeals, we’ll say, to you
You teach me everything you know
And I will teach my friend
Who’ll teach some boy who’ll teach some girl
And so on to the end
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: