You Can’t Get Lovin’

(Where There Ain’t Any Love)
A popular song from 1919
Words and music by Will E. Skidmore and Jack Baxley

The sheet music:

You-Cant-Get-Lovin – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:

You_Cant_Get_Lovin – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. I’ve cried my last time over any Gal
    It ain’t a bit of use
    I treat ’em all the best that I know how
    But in return I get abuse
    I “fell hard” for one certain Miss
    But she neve loved me
    So, I sat right down and figured out
    And the answer seems to be

Chorus
You can get WATER where there ain’t any WELL
You can hear RINGING where there ain’t any BELL
You can get PEACHES where there ain’t any TREES
And you can get HONEY where there ain’t any BEES
You can get HEARTACHES where there ain’t any PAIN
You can get SUNSHINE always after the RAIN
You can often find HEAVEN without going ABOVE
But you CAN’T get LOVIN’ where there ain’t any LOVE

  1. I used to love that Gal with all my soul
    I’ll say she sure could “Vamp”
    When she’d go way just for a single day
    Oh! how my poor heart it would “Cramp”
    Never will I grieve any more
    They don’t play a square game
    What’s the use to try to figure ’em out
    ‘Cause the answer’s still the same

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: