[Verse 1: Velma Middleton]
Love, oh love, oh loveless love, it's messy
You set your heart on goldless golds, real messy
With dreamless dreams and schemeless schemes
We wreck our loveboats on the shore

[Verse 2: Velma Middleton, (Louis Armstrong)]
Oh love, la ba do do do do do do love, I'm frantic
You broke my heart a million ways, mmm
You left me alone and wrecked my home
It's love, L-O-V-E love (sing it baby, sing it baby)

[Verse 3: Louis Armstrong, (Velma Middleton)]
Oh love, oh love, oh loveless love (mmm)
Has set our hearts on goldless gold (mmm)
From milkless milk and silkless silk
We are growing used to soulless soul (yaba-doodle-oo)

[Verse 4: Louis Armstrong, (Velma Middleton)]
Such grafting times we never saw (mmm, Pops)
And that's why we have a pure food law
How did food get in here?
In everything we find is a flaw
Even love, love, love, love