[Lyric] Das Chicago Song (Madeline Kahn)

There is a strange foreign city six thousand miles from Berlin
Near to the mountains where the Mississippi flows
A magic town where the drugstores never close
I know too well it’s mystic spell
I met my love in that city
God, how I took it on the chin

He took my love and then he sailed away
Somewhere east of Stuttgart on the road to Mandalay
Now in a third-rate café in Weltschmerzstraße 93
There’s a berlin girl awaitin’
For her lover from that city ‘cross thе sea
Me

I can’t forget, I rеmember it yet
That faraway city where we met
You walked up to me and you tipped your hat
And you kicked my dog and that was that

Let’s go away, you said
Today, you said
I’m a CPA, you said
Max, you dirty rat
Ptui!
In old Chicago, by the sea, we tangoed the night away
In a whiskey bar, don’t ask why
Gangsters crooned to a Spanish guitar
And the moan of the saxophone and the wail of the castanet
In old Chicago, remember it, Max

Then you smiled and said that you meant no harm
Then you took my hand and you broke my arm
And before I could stop your nasty lying
You pulled a knife and said be mine

You were divine, Max
You were like wine, Max
Who could decline, Max?
You filthy swine, Max
Ptui!

In old Chicago, by the sea, we sambaed the night away
In the jungle rain, don’t ask
Darkies sang in the cotton and cane
And the thump of the traffic and the roar of the woodman’s axe
In old Chicago, remember it, Max

Then you broke my jaw with a single punch
And you took my seat and you ate my lunch
And you sailed away where the trade winds blow
Without a goodbye, without a hello
Where did you go, Max?
With all that dough, Max?
I loved you so, Max
You fat bum, Max
Ptui!

In old Chicago, by the sea, under the palms
We hulaed the night away
We watched the dawn, don’t
Alone, Max
You left me alone to the cry of the gull
With a handful of dreams and a fractured skull

Aaahhh…

Max, come back
You forgot your whip
Ptui!