On the day I was born, Said my father,…
On the day I was born,
Said my father, said he
I’ve 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.
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“Look to the Rainbow”, in Finian’s Rainbow (1946) - Petula Clark version
Other E. Y. Harburg Quotes
- No matter how high or great the throne,
What sits on it is the same as your own. - View Quote Details on No matter how high or great the throne,
What… - 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? - View Quote Details on Some day I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up… - 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. - View Quote Details on I am a rebel by birth…. I contest anything that…
- 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. - View Quote Details on Without your love
It’s a honky-tonk parade
Without… - 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 reds!” - View Quote Details on Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no… - Follow the yellow brick road. - View Quote Details on Follow the yellow brick road.
- Say, its only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn’t be make-believe
If you believed in me. - View Quote Details on Say, its only a paper moon
Sailing over a… - Life is short, short, brother!
Ain’t it the truth?
And there is no other
Ain’t it the truth?
You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain’t it the solid truth? - View Quote Details on Life is short, short, brother!
Ain’t it the truth?… - We’re off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You’ll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was. - View Quote Details on We’re off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of… - Somewhere over the rainbow,
Way up high
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true. - View Quote Details on Somewhere over the rainbow,
Way up high
There’s a land…
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