Lyrics of 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 nightclubbin' souses

oh give me the free 'n' easy waltz that is vienneasy and

go tell the band if they want a hand

the waltz must be strauss's



ya, ya ya, 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 to 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 your oom-pa-pah, by strauss!



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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 your oom-pa-pah,

by strauss!"