By Strauss

Away with the music of Broadway Be off with your Irving Berlin No, I give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter And Gershwin keeps pounding on tin How can I be civil when hearing that drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses Just 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 Ja ja ja, 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 in three-quarter time