SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Ella Fitzgerald lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Ella Fitzgerald Lyrics for Song: By Strauss Lyrics for Album: Jazz Manifesto [1991] Away with the music of Broadway Be off with your Irving Berlin Oh 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 Viennesey And, go tell the band, if they want a hand The waltz must be Strauss's Yeah yeah yeah Give me oom-pa-pa 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 to three-quarter time Let the Danube flow along And the Fledermaus 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-pa By Strauss Let the Danube flow along And the Fledermaus 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-pa By Strauss Album Lyrics: Jazz Manifesto [1991] Ella Fitzgerald "Jazz Manifesto [1991]" 1. Just Another Rhumba 2. That Certain Feeling 3. By Strauss 4. Somebody From Somewhere 5. Love Is Sweeping The Country 6. Stiff Upper Lip 7. Things Are Looking Up