Eric Cartman wrote a few great ones.
“Wanna get down on me knees to Please Jesus! Feel that salvation all over my face!”
The chorus in the 10cc song Dreadlock Holiday changes each time but the first time it starts:
I don’t like cricket, oh no, I love it.
Second time starts
I don’t like reggae, no no, I love it.
Third time it starts
I don’t like Jamaica, oh no, I love her.
TCMF-2L
Excerpts from a song from England, concerning railway locomotive crew and their passionate feelings for their charges (from the days when steam locos were the norm – modern traction rarely if ever inspires such sentiments among those who tend it):
Come all you young maidens, take a warning from me:
Shun all engine-drivers and their company –
He’ll tell you he loves you, and all kinds of lies;
But the one that he loves is the train that he drives.
He hugged me and kissed me and gazed in my eyes,
And said, “You’re as nice as the 8.45”…
A sailor comes home when the voyage is done,
A soldier gets weary of following the drum,
A collier will cleave to his loved one for life;
But a railwayman’s love is the engine his wife…
Chestnut Mare by the Byrds.
Or “Girl of My Dreams” by Bram Tchaikovsky.
Back to the animal theme, there's also "Shannon" by Henry Gross.
“Mary had a little lamb;
Couldn’t make it with a man.”
–traditional
Meanwhile, Norman Greenbaum (satirical SPIRIT IN THE SKY) wrote a fine interspecies love song. From my memory:
Jethro bought himself a milk cow, and he calls her Bess (2x)
Milk cow in the morning; milk cow, any time at all.
Give you lifetime of pleasure, all she needs is love (2x)
Milk cow in the morning; milk cow, any time at all.
Dog songs: Old Blue. Old Red. Old Gray Dog. Lassie and Benji themes. My Dog And Me (John Hiatt). I Love My Dog (Cat Stevens - but who loves his cat?)
I’m afraid to look for love songs for goats. Or robots. Or conservatives. Too kinky.
Beer Never Broke My Heart extols the virtues of beer over various types of relationships.
Likewise In Every Dreamhome A Heartache by Roxy Music
j
What’s the ruling on objects of affection which start off alive but end up dead by the end of the song? There’s a lot of them. Like Delilah by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band?
(I believe Tom Jones also did a version).
j
Dabnabbit, all of mine have already mentioned. Has anyone chimed in with Puff the Magic Dragon? IIRC, Jackie Paper loved that rascal, Puff.
Dance scene from Love At First Bite
I Love L.A.
I Love New York
Dirty Water Love song to Boston (written and performed by people who’d never been there)
That’s the one I was going to mention. How can you be more romantically in love with a horse than with a line like “And we’ll be friends for life, she’ll be just like a wife”? Though I love the song, I’ve done horse-riding in my youth and get the song alright.
Jonathan Coulton: “I’m Your Moon”, a love letter from Charon to Pluto.
Here’s a song-within-a-song that might qualify: “If you’ll be my Dixie chicken, I’ll be your Tennessee lamb…”
How about a song about a lovely horse?