Tchaikovsky and Other Russians - Danny Kaye

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