Add a little sugar, honeysuckle and / a great big expression of happiness / Boy, you couldn't miss / With a dozen roses / such will astound you / The joy of children laughing around you / These are the makings of you / It is true, the makings of you
The righteous way to go / Little one would know / or believe if I told them so / You're second to none / The love of all mankind / Should reflect some sign / of these words I've tried to recite / They're close but not quite / Almost impossible to do / Reciting the makings of you