By Straus-Portia Nelson/Terri Trotter

[ti:By Straus] [ar:Portia Nelson] [al:The Gershwin Selection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]By Straus - Portia Nelson/Terri Trotter [00:06.42]Away with the music of Broadway [00:08.30] [00:08.94]Be off with your Irving Berlin [00:10.14] [00:11.17]Oh I take no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter [00:14.34] [00:15.37]And Gershwin keeps pounding on tin [00:17.48] [00:18.96]How can I be civil when hearing this drivel [00:21.53] [00:22.24]It's only for nightclubbin' souses [00:24.36] [00:26.43]Just give me the free 'n' easy waltz that is Vienneasy and [00:37.62]Go tell the band If they want a hand [00:41.07] [00:41.98]The waltz must be Strauss's [00:46.57] [00:47.39]Ya ya ya give me oom-pa-pah [00:56.42] [01:02.37]When I want a melody [01:06.71] [01:07.80]Lilting through the house [01:08.90] [01:09.95]Then I want a melody [01:11.11] [01:12.14]By Strauss [01:12.94] [01:14.29]It laughs it sings the world is in rhyme [01:18.07] [01:19.45]Swinging to three-quarter time [01:23.30] [01:27.08]Let the Danube flow along [01:30.50] [01:31.46]And the Fledermauss [01:32.15] [01:33.16]Keep the wine and give me song [01:35.35] [01:35.90]By Strauss [01:37.94]By Jove by Jing by Strauss is the thing [01:44.41] [01:47.49]So I say to ha-cha-cha heraus [01:51.42] [01:52.90]Just give me your oom-pa-pah by Strauss