Get your kicks and hit the ritz The world is full of hypocrites Babbledibo bang gobbelty gook All the caesars rule the pie And the chairman ate his tie Now I'm gonna die Here's to the parties They'll be the end of me My time is waning But I'm going out blazing Herod thrived, Jesus died Cortés got rich and Schubert poor Sobriety is such a bore Home of Virgil, Donald Duck And Napoleon lost his sock Come on let's rock around the clock Here's to the parties They'll be the end of me I'm going to hell But I do it well Philistine, grand smuggery Bigoted arch bigotry Nothing's new in history Nero may have killed his mom And burned Rome for his hall But he sure could throw a ball Here's to the parties They'll be the end of me Let's go down together Nothing's forever Dancing on the precipice Surfing the wave of the abyss