Broadway production 2012 Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - By Strauss Lyrics "By Strauss" is a song from Nice Work If You Can Get It the musical performed by Judy Kaye and Michael McGrath.
[Estonia] 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'n'easy Waltz that is Viennesey --
And, go tell the band If they want a hand, The waltz must be Strauss's. Ya, ya, ya -- 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 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 Heruas! Just give me an oom-pah-pah By Strauss!
[Cookie] Grab a cab and go down To where the band is playing; Where milk and honey flow down Where ev'ry one is saying: "Blow that sweet and low-down!"
Come along, get in it -- You'll love the syncopation! The minute they begin it, You're shouting to the nation: "Blow --"
[Estonia] How can I be civil When hearing this drivel? It's only for nightclubbing souses. Oh, give me the free'n'easy Waltz that is Viennesey --
[Estonia] (simultaneously) When I want a melody Lifting through the house, Then I want a melody By Strauss. It laughs! It sings! The world is in rhyme,
Swinging to three-quarter t-- Swinging to three-quarter t-- Three-quarter! Three-quarter! Swinging to three-quarter time!
By jo, by jing! By Strauss is the thing! So I say to ha-cha-cha Heruas! Just give me an oom-pah-pah By Strauss! By Strauss! By Strauss! By Strauss!
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Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
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