Richard M. Sherman Follow

What has love got to do with getting married?
Why should love enter into it at all?
Love can make you quite emotionally harried when you're married;
It's pedantic and romantic falderal.
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate --
Princess Susan, Princess Karen, Princess Kate.
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate;
Love will have to wait.

What has love got to do with being married?
Being married is a problem all its own.
Love is highly overrated and makes marriage complicated
When the bed is elevated to the throne.

Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate.
Pick the proper princess, prime to propagate.
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate.
Love will have to wait.

There is many an eligible maiden
Of good family with title of her own,
Who would come to us bountif'ly beladen
With an army that could fortify our throne.

What has marriage got to do with being happy?
Being married can't compare with being royal --
Being royal you engender every luxury and splendor,
While a marriage can get overripe and spoil.

Find a mate, dear cousin, set the date.
Why procrastinate and stay the hand of fate?
Find a mate, dear cousin, set the date.
Happiness can always wait.

What has love got to do with getting married?
What has bread got to do with wedding cake?
We are bold to your defiance of connubial alliance
For a line of royal giants is at stake

Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
We are growing old and time is growing late
Find a mate, dear boy, find a mate
It's your duty to the state not stay a celibate

Find a mate, find a mate
Find a mate, find a mate
What has love got to do with getting married?