By Strauss

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