By Strauss / Sweet and Lowdown

Lyrics

[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 ding 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 [ESTONIA] By jo, by jin [COOKIE] Sweet and low-down [ESTONIA] By Stauss is the thing [COOKIE] Come along, get in it You'll love the syncopation The minute they begin it You're shouting to the nation Blow-- [ESTONIA] Oh, how can I be civil When hearing this drivel It's only for nightclubbing souses [COOKIE, spoken] Souses? [ESTONIA] Oh, give me the free'n'easy Waltz that is Viennesey Ahh [COOKIE stepping] [ESTONIA] Ahh [COOKIE stepping] [ESTONIA] Ahh [COOKIE] Hah-cha-cha-cha [ESTONIA] Ahh [COOKIE] Hah-cha-cha-cha [ESTONIA] Ahh [COOKIE] Ooh [ESTONIA] Ahh [COOKIE & ESTONIA] Ahh [COOKIE & ESTONIA] My advice is (When I want a) Grab a cab and go (Melody) Where the band is playing Milk and honey flow(Lifting through the house) Everyone is saying (Then I want a melody) "Blow, that sweet and low-down"! (By Strauss) Low-down! [ESTONIA] It laughs! [COOKIE] Ha [ESTONIA] It sings! [COOKIE, spoken] Pipe down [ESTONIA] The world is in rhyme [COOKIE, spoken] Oh brother [ESTONIA] Swinging to three-quarter ti- [COOKIE] Four quarter [ESTONIA] Swinging to three-quarter ti- [COOKIE] Four quarter [ESTONIA] Three-quarter [COOKIE] Four quarter [ESTONIA] Three-quarter [COOKIE] Four quarter [ESTONIA & COOKIE] Swinging to three-quarter time! (Four quarter time) By jo (By jo) By jing (By jing) By Strauss is the thing (Zing) So I say to ha-cha-cha (Ha-cha-cha-cha-cha) Heruas (Ha-cha-cha-cha) Just give me an oom-pah-pah (Go on and blow) By Strauss! (That sweet and lowdown, lowdown) By Strauss! (Lowdown, lowdown) By Strauss! (Lowdown, lowdown) By Strauss! (Grab a cab and go Where the band is playing; Milk and honey flow Everyone is saying) [ESTONIA & COOKIE] Ahh