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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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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They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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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.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
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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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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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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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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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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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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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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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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Virtue is its own revenge.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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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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