The Laugh Parade

Written for: The Laugh Parade (1931)
Lyric: Mort Dixon & Joe Young
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1931
Original publisher: Harms, Inc.

Verse:

What is that martial strain that's blaring out?
A big parade is on, without a doubt.
Important persons you have read about,
All in the public eye,
Soon will go marching by.
They make the headlines in the daily press,
They give out interviews that lack finesse,
They are the foremost people, more or less;
So, keep your seat till you meet
The cream of the elite;

Chorus:

Don't be surprised, don't be dismayed,
When you review the soldiers of the Laugh Parade.
They're not arrayed in gold and braid,
In fact, a military life is not their trade.
But nonchalant and unafraid,
The public's risibilities they all invade.
Although it's fun, although it's wit,
It isn't very diplomatic, we admit;
But in this show, a spade's a spade,
And so we organized the Laugh Parade;
Now we present the Laugh Parade.