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Yip Harburg

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Also known as Edgar Yipsel "Yip" Harburg, Edgar Yipsel Harburg, E. Y. Harburg, Isidore Hochberg

American lyricist (1896–1981)

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • The Yip Harburg Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar
  • More Rhymes for the Irreverent
  • Rhymes for the Irreverent
  • Yip Harburg Songbook

via Open Library + Wikidata

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
370
Total plays
892

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via Last.fm · Yip Harburg

Quotes

  • Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
  • Once I built a tower up to the sun Brick and rivet and lime Once I built a tower, now it's 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?
  • Say, its only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me.
  • Without your love It's a honky-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me.
  • Some day I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemondrops Away above the chimney tops, That's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then, oh why can't I?

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Yip Harburg, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana