Paganini: "Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss"

GIRLS WERE MADE TO LOVE AND KISS
 From the Operetta "Paganini" (1925)
 (Franz Lehár)
 (Original libretto by Paul Knepler & Béla Jenbach)
 (English adaptations by A.P. Herbert & Harry Dexter (1937),
 and by David Kram & Dennis Olsen)
 As recorded by Richard Tauber:
 Girls were made to love and kiss
 And who am I to interfere with this?
 Is it well? Who can tell?
 But I know the good Lord made it so
 Am I ashamed to follow nature's way?
 Shall I be blamed if God has made me gay?
 Does it pay? Who can say?
 I'm a man and kiss her when I can
 Yet I have suffered in love's great deeps
 I know the passion that never sleeps
 I know the longing and wronging of hearts
 The hope that flatters and shatters and smarts
 I suffer still but I sleep at nights
 Man cannot always be on the heights
 And when our aching and breaking is done
 Flirting is jolly, it's folly, but fun
 Girls were made to love and kiss
 And who am I to interfere with this?
 Does it pay? Who can say?
 I'm a man and kiss her when I can
 In some recent recordings, the two lines
 "Am I ashamed to follow nature's way?
 Shall I be blamed if God has made me gay?"
 have been sung as
 "Am I ashamed to follow nature's law?
 Shall I be blamed, it's just my fatal flaw"