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It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
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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World
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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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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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No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
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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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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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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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Leave the atom alone.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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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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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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My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.
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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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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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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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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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When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.
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Once I built a railroad now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
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