From the 1909 musical “The Girl and the Wizard”.
Words by Percival Knight.
Music by Jerome Kern.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Upon a Strasse just outside and just beside
The barracks post in a cute cafe
They seek each day, their regimental toast
Sweet Frantzi Frankenstein
Queen of the foaming stein
And officers to privates will
From dawn till night my tables fill
For she’s a friend of mine
And mine sweet Frantzi Frankenstein
Beneath the Lindens thereabouts
They’ve sworn to take their stand, their stand
And drink, and drink, and drink
Until some comrade wins her hand
Refrain:
Frantzi, Frantzi, Frantzi Frankenstein
Hearts are all in line
Won’t you take command of your little band
Captured by love’s necromancy
If the uniform that loves her best
She’d choose from the rest
Her selection would be perfection
If Frantzi fancied me
2. The beer and things that are the same
In other places in the land
It is oft observed improve when served
By Frantzi’s dainty hand
Sweet Frantzi Frankenstein, at your cafe divine
It’s not the cheese, it’s not the beer
It’s not the place that draws us near
It’s not to wine, or dine, or dine
It’s Frantzi Frankenstein
And to besiege my heart each day
To my cafe they go, they go
And fight, and fight, and fight, and fight
‘Till she surrenders to the foe