Down the Drain - Allan Sherman

(Down, down, down, down, down…

Down, down, down…)

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.)