
Great and funny song from The Inspector General--Warner Bros. 1949. Starring Danny Kaye LYRICS Whisking through the whispering woods on a wild Romani pony With a yak yak yak, and a yak se drak, and a yak se drak se donye. Rides the gypsy The gypsy The gee-eee-eee-ipsy The gip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ipsy. The world thinks him careless and tipsy and free But oh, the poor gypsy (scream, squeak, gasp) His lot is not what it ought to be. For... Night and day and day and night there's a man they're sick of obeying With a whip In his hand. Over gypsy he stand. And this is what he is saying: Um. Hum. Hmm. Play gypsy, sing gypsy, dance gypsy, laugh gypsy, cry gypsy, live gypsy, die gypsy DRINK...gypsy. Drink to goodbyes and drink to hellos. Drink to the open; drink to the closed. Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will drink with my nose. And so we drink! But first we sing. -Pause while Danny Kaye teaches chorus to his audience. It consists of "zoom," "shtock, shtock," and "Ha!Ha!Ha!" and unintelligible something that my dad said was French.- Play, gypsy, sing gypsy, dance gypsy, leap gypsy, dream gypsy, slide gypsy, slink gypsy DRINK...gypsy. And so we drink. But first we play. -Pause while Danny Kaye plays violin- Play gypsy, sing gypsy, dance gypsy, smile gypsy, wink gypsy, blink gypsy, shrink gypsy DRINK...gypsy. And so we drink. But first we dance. -Pause while Danny Kaye does flaming sword dance- And so we drink To everyone we admire. To the girl who sets your <b>...</b>
Inspector General
Danny Kaye
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Romanian
Gypsy
drinking
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funny
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