A Symphonic Variation (The Violins Play Along)
Composer(s): Oscar Brand
Performer(s): The Brothers Four



Now the Hit Parade in today's Music Industry is a weird thing 
Top ten, the top forty, the top one hundred, the top seven thousand  
These are all lists of records, popular with and purchased by eleven, twelve thirteen year old kiddies
It's just the thing for music from such people as, oh, Elvis, Fabian, Fats, Chubby, skinny, messy, icky
And with this kind of thing going on, it's hard for us to know what to put out for the Top Forty or the Hit Parade market 
We feel that Rock and Roll is on one end of the musical spectrum 
Now, we'd like to go into the other end of the musical spectrum that we 
ah, we feel that ah, that we feel is Classical and Symphonic music 
We'd like to start off our contribution to the Symphonic and Classical music world this evening with something from the string section...

The violins play the song
Everyone has got to sing along
The violins play the song
Everyone has got to sing along

And now we progress to the woodwind section...

The clarinet, the clarinet
He doesn't know it, but he'll learn it yet
The clarinet, the clarinet
He doesn't know it, but he'll learn it yet

Thank you 
Now we'd like to have something from the percussion section...

The drums are never sharp, the drums are never flat
They just go rat-tat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat
The drums are never sharp, the drums are never flat
They just go rat-tat-a-tat-tat-tat

Now the horns...

The horn, the horn
Just sneers with scorn
The horn, the horn
Just sneers with scorn

The violins play the song
Everyone has got to sing along

The clarinet, the clarinet
He doesn't know it, but he'll learn it yet

The drums are never sharp, the drums are never flat
They just go rat-tat-a-tat-tat-tat

The horn, the horn
Just sneers with scorn

The violins play the song
(All other voices join in, singing
their lines and overlapping each other)
And everyone has got to sing along