By Strauss

Away with the music of Broadway!

Be off with your Irving Berlin

Oh, I'd give no quarter

To Kern or Cole Porter

And Gershwin keeps pounding on tin

How can one be civil

When hearing this drivel?

It's only for nightclubbing 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

Ja, ja, ja

Give me oom-pah-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 Fledermaus

Keep the wine and give me song

By Strauss

By jo, by jing!

By Strauss is the thing!

So I say to ha-cha-cha

Heraus!

Just give me an oom-pah-pah

By Strauss!

Let the Danube flow along

And The Fledermaus

Keep the wine and give me song

By Strauss

By jo, by jing!

By Strauss is the thing!

So I say to ha-cha-cha

Heraus!

Just give me an oom-pah-pah

By Strauss!