By Strauss lyrics

[Verse]
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 I be civil
When hearing this drivel?
It's only for nightclubbing souses
Oh, give me the free and 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

[Chorus]
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 jo, by jing
By Strauss is the thing
So I say to ha-cha-cha
Heraus
Just give me a oom-pah-pah
By Strauss
[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
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 a oom-pah-pah
By Strauss