When I’m not near the girl I love, I love…

When I’m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I’m near.

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“When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love” in Finian’s Rainbow (1946) - Tommy Steele 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…
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? - View Quote Details on Once I built a railroad, I made it run,…
How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that little brook still leaping there?
Does it still run down to Donny cove?
Through Killybegs, Kilkerry and Kildare? - View Quote Details on How are things in Glocca Morra?
Is that little…
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? - View Quote Details on So I ask each weepin’ willow
And each brook…
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…
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?…
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. - View Quote Details on On the day I was born,
Said my father,…
When the idle poor
Become the idle rich
You’ll never know
just who is who
or who is which. - View Quote Details on When the idle poor
Become the idle rich…
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…
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…