By Strauss

By Strauss
Away with the music of Broadway
Be off with your Irving Berlin
No, I give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter
And Gershwin keeps pounding on tin!

How can I be civil when hearing this drivel
It's only for night-clubbing souses?
Oh give me the free-'n'-easy waltz, that is Vienneasy and
And go tell the band if they want a hand
The waltz must be Strauss's!
Ja, ja, ja; give me oom-pa-pah
When I want a melody
Lilting through the house
Then I want a melody
By Strauss!
It laughs, it sings,
The world is in rhyme
Swinging in three-quarter time
Let the Danube flow along
And the Fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss!
By Jove, by Jing, by Strauss is the thing
So, I say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me an oom-pa-pah by Strauss!
Let the Danube flow along
And the Fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss!
By Jove, by Jing, by Strauss is the thing
So, I say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me an oom-pa-pah by Strauss!