By Strauss Lyrics > Nice Work If You Can Get It
By Strauss Lyrics
[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!
Last Update: February, 11th 2016
Nice Work If You Can Get It Lyrics
- Act 1
- Overture
- 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
- I've Got to Be There (Reprice) Lyrics
- Treat Me Rough
- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
- Do It Again
- S Wonderful
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Act 2
- 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
- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Reprise) Lyrics
- Will You Remember Me?
- I've Got to Be There (Reprise)
- I've Got a Crush on You
- Blah, Blah, Blah (Reprise) Lyrics
- Looking for a Boy (Reprise) Lyrics
- Delishious (Reprise) Lyrics
- Someone to Watch Over Me (Reprise)
- They All Laughed