Just an old-fashioned love song
Playing on the radio
And wrapped around the music
Is the sound of someone promising they'll never go
You swear you've heard it before
As it slowly rambles on
No need in bringing 'em back
'Cause they're never really gone
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me
Just an old-fashioned love song
Coming down in three part harmony
To weave our dreams upon and listen
To each evening when the lights are low
To underscore our love affair with tenderness and feelings
That we've come to know
You swear you've heard it before
As it slowly rambles on and on and
No need in bringing 'em back
'Cause they're never really gone
Just an old-fashioned love song
Coming down in three part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me
Just an old-fashioned love song
Coming down in three part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me
To weave our dreams upon and listen to a song
Just an old song, coming down
Just an old song
(One I'm sure they wrote for you and me)
Just an old song, coming down
Just an old song (just an old-fashioned love song)
(One I'm sure they wrote for you and me)
Just an old-fashioned love song
Coming down in three-part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me
Just an old-fashioned love song
Coming down in three-part harmony
Just an old-fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me
According to the Karen Carpenter biography Little Girl Blue by Randy L. Schmidt, Williams originally intended the song for the Carpenters, who were in the middle of a string of hits with their own brand of "old fashioned love songs", including two of Williams' own compositions, "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". Although this was the first song Williams had written specifically for Carpenters, Richard Carpenter rejected it, and so Williams offered the song to Three Dog Night. Carpenters never recorded the song, but did perform it live on television with Carol Burnett a few months later.
