By Strauss Ella Fitzgerald

Away with the music of Broadway
Be off with your Irving Berlin
Oh, I 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 Viennese-y 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 to three-quarter time
Let the Danube flow along
And the Fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss
By Jove, by Jing, by Strauss is the thing
So I say to ha-cha-cha, Heraus
Just give me your oom-pah-pah by Strauss

Let the Danube flow along
And the Fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss
By Jove, by Jing, by Strauss is the thing
So I say to ha-cha-cha, Heraus
Just give me your oom-pah-pah by Strauss