The Mamas & the Papas – For The Love Of Ivy

"For The Love Of Ivy" as written by John Edmund Andrew Phillips and Dennis Doherty....
Mama's & Papa's - For The Love Of Ivy
I never thought I'll try for the love of Ivy;
I never thought I'll cry for the love of Ivy.
Somebody hide me from the love, the love of Ivy.
It takes up all of your time to fall in love with Ivy.
(Here cometh Ivy...Ivy)

If I gathered all my means (all my means)
In a pile beside me (in a pile),
It wouldn't why help to fill my dreams (fill my dreams)
For the love of Ivy.
Money cannot buy me---
Buy for me the love of Ivy.
I'll not the kind of guy who falls in love with Ivy.

Ivy...
For the love of (Ivy)...for the love of Ivy, yeah.
For the Love of (Ivy)...for the love of Ivy, yeah.
Yeah, for the love of (Ivy)...for the love of Ivy...
Yeah, yeah...
For the love of Ivy...for the love of Ivy...
For the love of Ivy...for the love of Ivy...

If I gathered all my means
In a pile beside me,
It wouldn't help to fill my dreams
For the love of Ivy.
Somebody hide me,
From the love, the love, the love, the love...
It takes up all of your to fall in love with Ivy.

For the love of (Ivy)...for the love of Ivy, yeah.
(For the love of Ivy...)
For the Love of (Ivy)...for the love of Ivy, yeah, yeah.
(For the love of Ivy...)
Yeah, for the love of (Ivy)...for the love of Ivy...
(For the love of Ivy..)

Yeah, yeah...
For the love of Ivy...
(Ivy, darling, darling...)
For the love of Ivy...
(I would surely die for Ivy;
Darling, darling Ivy...)
Ivy, yeah...

For the love Ivy
(Ivy is the one that I adore..)
For the love of Ivy...
Ivy...
For the love of...
For the love of...


Lyrics submitted by Mad Woman Moon

"For the Love of Ivy" as written by John Edmund Andrew Phillips Dennis Doherty

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    General CommentThis is the title tune from the Sidney Poitier movie "For Love of Ivy". For more information about it look here :
    imdb.com/title/tt0062985/
    Mad Woman Moonon January 28, 2009   Link
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    General CommentMy parents listened to this song when I was little, and I really loved it. When I was listening to it recently, it struck me how obsessive and unhappy the lyrics of this love song were, and now I think it is actually a song about addiction, and the love of "Ivy" is actually the love of IV drugs.
    amleropeon August 30, 2012   Link

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