The sweetest things in life
Don't stay around for very long.
They come
and go and don't come back again.
While they're here, you feel so
smug.
That's when fate pulls out the plug,
And the sweetest things in life
go down the drain.
What has happened to galoshes?
Down the drain.
Where's the Czar of all
the Russias?
Down the drain.
And the five-cent candy bar,
And the good
old Edsel car?
(Gone where all the swell things are.)
Down the
drain.
(Right down the drain.)
Down the drain.
(Gone down the drain.)
Where are telephone prefixes?
Down the drain.
They've all gone to where
Tom Mix is.
Down the drain.
Where's those grand old Gold Dust
Twins?
(All those German zeppelins?)
Boys who set up bowling pins?
Down
the drain.
(Right down the drain.)
Down the drain.
(Gone down the
drain.)
Suppose we made a fuss
About the double decker bus?
Do you suppose
they'd bring it back again?
Fountain pens that use real ink,
Coins that
don't go clunk, but clink.
The things we love are sinking down the drain.
Where are all those kamikazes?
Down the drain.
And the Hotel Savoy
Plaza's
Down the drain.
Where's the New York World's Fair?
Just last
year I saw it there!
(In the heart of
Flushing.)
Where?
(Flushing.)
Down the drain.
(Right
down...)
Flushing down the drain.
(Right down the drain.)
(Flushing
down the drain.)
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