Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
from "Show Boat"
Music by Jerome Kern
Words by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd
1927
'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