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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Yip Harburg
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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
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Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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Leave the atom alone.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.
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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry Down with traitors! And the dawn shout Up the rebs!
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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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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The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.
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When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.
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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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