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 nightclubbin' souses 
  
 oh 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 
  
  
  
 ya, ya ya, 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 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-pa-pah, by strauss! 
  
  
  
 (bridge) 
  
  
  
 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-pa-pah, 
  
 by strauss!"