I've been playing some old records that I in Grandpa's trunk a wind-up gramophone, beneath a pile of junk And in that dusty attic I a music show Listening to the of eighty years ago
Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo The band play Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo They'd danced the away
I long for all the and the days of cabaret Bring back those good old melodies of Bring back those good old of yesterday
In my youth, I studied and it taught me how to sing signora They took me to the opera and I loved that of thing But then I'd listen to the stories that my grandpa to tell About the 'Roaring Twenties' and the songs he so well
Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo The would play Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo They'd danced the away
I long for all the and the days of cabaret Bring back good old melodies of yesterday Bring those good old melodies of yesterday
Then he'd talk about the flappers and the way used to dance the bootleg liquor and the ballrooms of romance Then in the movies there's dancing everywhere My grandpa he dreamed that he could move like Fred Astaire
Oh, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo The band would Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo danced the night away
I for all the magic and the days of cabaret Bring back those good old of yesterday Bring back good old melodies of yesterday