{"id":17785,"date":"2023-10-06T03:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T03:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=17785"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:20:38","slug":"strip-polka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/strip-polka\/","title":{"rendered":"Strip Polka"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\">by Johnny Mercer - Recorded by the Andrews Sisters\r\nYouTube\r\n\r\nThere's a [C] burlesque theatre where the [F] gang loves to go\r\nTo see [G] Queenie the cutie of the [C] burlesque show\r\n[G] And the [C] thrill of the evening is when [F] out Queenie skips\r\nAnd the [G] band plays the polka while she [C] strips\r\n\r\n\"Take it off,\" \"Take it off\" Cries a voice from the rear\r\n\"Take it off,\" Take it off\" Soon it's all you can hear\r\nBut she's always a lady even in pantomime\r\nSo she [G] stops! And always just in time\r\n\r\nShe's as [C] fresh and as wholesome as the [F] flowers in May\r\nAnd she[G] hopes to retire to the [C] farm someday\r\n[G] But you [C] can't buy a farm until you're [F] up in the chips\r\nSo the [G] band plays the polka while she [C] strips\r\n\r\n\"Take it off,\" \"Take it off\" all the customers shout,\r\n\"Down in front\" \"Down in front\" while the band beats it out\r\nBut she's always a lady even in pantomime\r\nSo she [G] stops! And always just in time\r\n\r\nQueenie, Queen of them all\r\nQueenie, someday you'll fall\r\nSomeday church bells will chime\r\nIn strip polka time\r\n\r\nOh! She hates corny waltzes and she hates the gavotte\r\nAnd there's one big advantage if the music's hot\r\nIt's a fast moving exit just in case something rips\r\nSo the [G] band plays the polka while she strips\r\n\r\nDrop around, take it in, it's the best in the west\r\n\"Take it off,\" \"Take it off\" you can yell like the rest\r\nTake her out when it's over, she's a peach when she's dressed\r\nBut she [G] stops! And always just in time\r\n\r\nQueenie, Queen of them all\r\nQueenie, someday you'll fall\r\nSomeday church bells - the old church bells will chime\r\nIn strip polka time<\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Johnny Mercer &#8211; Recorded by the Andrews Sisters YouTube There&#8217;s a [C] burlesque theatre where the [F] gang loves to go To see [G] Queenie the cutie of the [C] burlesque show [G] And the [C] thrill of the evening is when [F] out Queenie skips And the [G] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/strip-polka\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strip Polka<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29566,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions\/29566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}