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When I'm not near the girl I love,
I love the girl I'm near.
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Did God who gave us flowers and trees,
Also provide the allergies?
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When I'm not facing the face that I fancy,
I fancy the face I face.
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To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.
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We got no Mussolini, got no Mosley,
We got Popeye and Gipsy Rose Lee.
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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In '29 when the banks went bust,
Our coins still read 'In God We Trust'.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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No matter how high or great the throne,
What sits on it is the same as your own.
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Wanna cry, wanna croon.
Wanna laugh like a loon.
It's that Old Devil Moon in your eyes.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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What throws a monkey wrench in
A fella's good intention?
That nasty old invention—
Necessity!
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When the idle poor
Become the idle rich
You'll never know
just who is who
or who is which.
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Ding dong, the witch is dead,
Which old witch? The wicked witch.
Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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For a halo up in heaven
I have never been too keen.
Who needs another gadget
That a fellow has to clean?
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This we learn from Watergate
That almost any creep'll
Be glad to help the Government
Overthrow the people.
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Once we had a Roosevelt
Praise the Lord!
Now we're stuck with Nixon, Agnew, Ford
Brother, can you spare a rope!
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Say, its only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.
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Why should I write for posterity?
What, if I may be free
To ask a ridiculous question,
Has posterity done for me?
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Man he eat the barracuda,
Barracuda eat the bass
Bass he eat the little flounder,
'Cause the flounder lower class.
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Last night
When we were young Love was a star,
A song unsung,
Life was so new,
So real, so right,
Ages ago,
Last night.
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We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.
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'For what we are about to receive,
Oh Lord, 'tis Thee we thank,'
Said the cannibal as he cut a slice
Of the missionary's shank.
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In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love;
And in summer,
and in autumn,
and in winter—
See above.
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WHERE and WHEN
Are lost in space.
THERE and THEN
Do not embrace.
So before we disappear
Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Yip Harburg
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Born:
April 8, 1896
Died:
March 5, 1981
(aged 84)
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