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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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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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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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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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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.
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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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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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Someday I'll wish upon a star.
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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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We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women
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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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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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
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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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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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Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?
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