I've been playing old records that I found in Grandpa's trunk Beside a wind-up gramophone, beneath a pile of And in dusty attic I enjoyed a music show Listening to the of eighty years ago
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 those old melodies of yesterday Bring back those good old of yesterday
In my youth, I music and it taught me how to sing Bella 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 he knew so well
Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo The would play Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo danced the night away
I long for all the magic and the days of Bring those good old melodies of yesterday Bring those good old melodies of yesterday
Then talk about the flappers and the way they used to dance About the bootleg and the ballrooms of romance later 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 would play Doo wacka, doo wacka, doo wacka, doo They'd the night away
I long for all the magic and the of cabaret Bring back those good old of yesterday Bring back those good old of yesterday