I play a tune that was known in Chicagoland as the Anniversary Waltz. Actually it is "The Waves of the Danube", and my book gives the composer was Emil Waldteufel. It is definitely minor, and has a Hungarian/Gypsyish feel to it.

Since Waldteufel is German for "wood devil," I wonder if the composer was a gypsy. Gypies did not have last names, and for interactions with non-gypsies, they would sometimes make up humorous last names for themselves.

I think it is a lovely song, and parodies of it are best forgotten. When I play it on the piano with deep, deep Em chords, my husband, who is Czech, gets all choked up. Why ruin it?