I've been playing old records that I found in Grandpa's trunk Beside a wind-up gramophone, 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 the night away
I for all the magic and the days of cabaret back those good old melodies of yesterday Bring back those old melodies of yesterday
In my youth, I studied music and it me how to sing signora They took me to the opera and I loved that kind of But then I'd listen to the stories my grandpa used to tell About the 'Roaring and the songs he knew so well
Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo The band would Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo They'd the night away
I long for all the magic and the days of Bring back those good old of yesterday back those good old melodies of yesterday
Then he'd talk the flappers and the way they used to dance About the bootleg liquor and the ballrooms of Then later in the movies there's everywhere My grandpa said he dreamed that he move like Fred Astaire
Oh, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo The band play Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo They'd danced the night
I long for all the magic and the of cabaret Bring back good old melodies of yesterday Bring back those good old melodies of