Yip Harburg

"Without your love Its a honky-tonk parade Without your love Its a melody played in a penny arcade. Its a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldnt be make-believe If you believed in me."

"Say, its only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldnt be make-believe If you believed in me."

"So I ask each weepin willow And each brook along the way, And each lad that comes a-whistlin Tooralay How are things in Glocca Morra This fine day?"

"Once I built a tower up to the sun Brick and rivet and lime Once I built a tower, now its done Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"

"I never knew the charm of spring Never met it face to face I never knew my heart could sing Never missed a warm embrace Til April in Paris. Whom can I run to? What have you done to My heart?"

"To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse."

"You’re out of the woods You’re out of the dark You’re out of the night Step into the sun, step into the light, Keep straight ahead For the most glorious place On the Face of the Earth Or the sky. Hold onto your breath Hold onto your heart Hold onto your hope, March up to the gate And bid it open."

"Some day Ill wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemondrops Away above the chimney tops, Thats where youll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then, oh why cant I?"

"When the idle poor Become the idle rich Youll never know just who is who or who is which."

"On the day I was born, Said my father, said he Ive an elegant legacy waiting for ye. Tis a rhyme for your lips And a song for your heart To sing it whenever the world falls apart. Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow it over the hill and stream Look, look, look to the rainbow Follow the fellow who follows a dream."

"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."

"When Im not near the girl I love, I love the girl Im near."