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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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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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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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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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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Leave the atom alone.
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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.
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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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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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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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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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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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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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Virtue is its own revenge.
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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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This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.
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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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