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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
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Screenwriter
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Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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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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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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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
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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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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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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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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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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
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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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