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1. The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.
Her lovers were many and varied
From the day she began her beguine.
There were three famous ones whom she married,
And God knows how many between.
Alma, tell us – all modern women are jealous –
Which of your magical wands
Got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?
2. The first one she married was Mahler,
Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav.
And each time he saw her he'd holler,
Ach, dot is de fraulein I must have!
Their marriage, however, was murder.
He’d scream to the heavens above,
“I’m writing Das Lied von der Erde,
Und she only wants to make love!”
Alma, tell us – all modern women are jealous –
You should have a statue in bronze
For bagging Gustav and Walter and Franz.
