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Someday I'll wish upon a star.

Yip Harburg

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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
Composer
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Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
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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Leave the atom alone.
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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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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
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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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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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