Lyrics Tchaikovsky and Other Russians - Danny Kaye

Tchaikovsky and Other Russians

Without the least excuse
Or the slightest provocation,
May I fondlyduce,
For your mental delectation,
The names that always give me a concussion,
The names of those composers known as Russian.
There’s Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tschaikowsky,
Sapelnikoff, Dimitrieff, Tscherepnin, Kryjanowsky,
Godowsky, Arteiboucheff, Moniuszko, Akimenko,
Solovieff, Prokofieff, Tiomkin, Korestchenko.
There’s Glinka, Winkler, Bortniansky, Rebikoff, Ilyinsky,
There’s Medtner, Balakireff, Zolotareff, and Kvoschinsky.
And Sokoloff and Kopyloff, Dukelsky, and Klenowsky,
And Shostakovitsch, Borodine, Gli