# Spike Jones' "Blue Danube" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones-blue-danube/99308 "2002-03-21T06:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones-blue-danube/99308/1 "2002-03-21T06:45:13Z")
In his album _Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics!_, Jones spoofs “The Blue Danube Waltz.” He starts out with "…for of all the things the Danube is, _The Danube Is Not Blue."_ Then comes a short verse saying the Danube is green, followed by a variation on the Irish washerwoman’s song, sung in a thick Irish brogue, of course: _**Oh, the Danube is green as a glass in the spring It’s as green as a dolly that’s set on a pane It’s as green as the paint that you put on the screen It’s as blue as–the Danube is greener than green!**_ It’s that second line, the one about the “dolly,” that I’m not sure about. Any info, please? Thanx. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones-blue-danube/99308/2 "2002-03-21T14:51:41Z")
“The Danube is green as the grass in the spring It’s as green as the dollar you spent on a fling.” Thank you, music lovers! ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones-blue-danube/99308/3 "2002-03-22T10:31:03Z")
Thanks, Olentzero! I tried for so long to decipher that line… 🙂