BY STRAUSS
(George Gershwin)

Ella Fitzgerald

Also recorded by: Juraj Bartos; Anna Bergman; 
Berkeley Square Society Band; George Gordon Byron;
Larry Carr; Kenny Clark; Crown Project;
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez; Lesley Garrett;
George Gershwin; Jack Gibbons; Steve Houben;
Lena Jansson; Linn Maxwell Keller; Gene Kelly;
Maureen McGovern; Ruth Nabal; Portia Nelson;
Marni Nixon; Christiane Noll; Eric Parkin;
Benjamin Sears; Dame Kiri Te Kanawa; 
Turtle Creek Chorale; Sarah Walker.


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!"