After the Anschluss, he was asked to amend `Spring In Vienna", as the Austrian capital no longer merited such effusions, and having no desire to rewrite lines like `Dew on the grass / Beer in the glass" simply selected a three-syllable brewing town and altered the title to `Spring In Milwaukee". 
Only rarely does a song give you a real whiff of time and place: `Memphis In June A shady veranda Under a Sunday-blue sky Memphis In June And cousin Miranda Making a rhubarb pie &ellip 
` So far, the song <tag "515647">derives</> its impact more from Hoagy Carmichael's lazily meandering tune.   

