Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man


from "Show Boat"

Music by Jerome Kern

Words by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd

1927

The Old Reliable 📚

'And now you're old and foolish, but all the same you're the only man I've ever wanted. It's odd, that. How does that song go? Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I gotta love one man till I die. Can't help––'

[...] Her voice came booming back to him.

'Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I gotta love one man till I die. Can't help lovin' that man of mine.'


The Old Reliable. Chapter 1