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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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A Russian child asked his mother : does God know we don't believe in Him?
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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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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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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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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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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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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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All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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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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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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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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