Allan Sherman - Down The Drain lyrics

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Down, down, down, down, down...<br />

Down, down, down...) <br />

The sweetest things in life<br />

Don't stay around for very long.<br />

They come and go and don't come back again.<br />

While they're here, you feel so smug.<br />

That's when fate pulls out the plug,<br />

And the sweetest things in life go down the drain. <br />

What has happened to galoshes?<br />

Down the drain.<br />

Where's the Czar of all the Russias?<br />

Down the drain.<br />

And the five-cent candy bar,<br />

And the good old Edsel car?<br />

(Gone where all the swell things are.)<br />

Down the drain.<br />

(Right down the drain.)<br />

Down the drain.<br />

(Gone down the drain.) <br />

Where are telephone prefixes?<br />

Down the drain.<br />

They've all gone to where Tom Mix is.<br />

Down the drain.<br />

Where's those grand old Gold Dust Twins?<br />

(All those German zeppelins?)<br />

Boys who set up bowling pins?<br />

Down the drain.<br />

(Right down the drain.)<br />

Down the drain.<br />

(Gone down the drain.) <br />

Suppose we made a fuss<br />

About the double decker bus?<br />

Do you suppose they'd bring it back again?<br />

Fountain pens that use real ink,<br />

Coins that don't go clunk, but clink.<br />

The things we love are sinking down the drain. <br />

Where are all those kamikazes?<br />

Down the drain.<br />

And the Hotel Savoy Plaza's<br />

Down the drain.<br />

Where's the New York World's Fair?<br />

Just last year I saw it there!<br />

(In the heart of Flushing.)<br />

Where?<br />

(Flushing.)<br />

Down the drain.<br />

(Right down...)<br />

Flushing down the drain.<br />

(Right down the drain.)<br />

(Flushing down the drain.) <br />

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