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"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."
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Yip HarburgWhen the idle poor — Yip Harburg
"When the idle poor Become the idle rich Youll never know just who is who or who is which."
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Edgar Yipsel "Yip" Harburg was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the songs for the film The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow". Harburg was known for the social commentary of his lyrics, as well as
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"Say, its only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldnt be make-believe If you believed in me."
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"To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse."
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"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?"
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"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?"
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"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?"
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