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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!
Read more: Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical Lyrics
Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
SYNOPSIS
Sweet and Lowdown
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Reprise)
Demon Rum
Someone to Watch Over Me
Delishious
I've Got to Be There
Treat Me Rough
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Do It Again
'S Wonderful
Fascinating Rhythm
Lady Be Good
But Not for Me
By Strauss
Sweet and Lowdown (Reprise)
Do Do Do
Hangin' Around With You
Looking for a Boy
Blah, Blah, Blah
Will You Remember Me?
I've Got to Be There (Reprise)
I've Got a Crush on You
Someone to Watch Over Me (Reprise)
They All Laughed
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