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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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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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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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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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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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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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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For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.
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As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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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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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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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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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.
Yip Harburg
I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
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Leave the atom alone.
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
Yip Harburg
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.
Yip Harburg
We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
Yip Harburg
All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
Yip Harburg
