By Strauss / Sweet and Lowdown

[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