Without your love It’s a honky-tonk parade Without…

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.

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“It’s Only a Paper Moon” (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose )

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Say, its only a paper moon
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And each brook along the way,
And each lad that comes a-whistlin’ Tooralay
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Somewhere over the rainbow,
Way up high
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
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I never knew the charm of spring
Never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
Never missed a warm embrace
‘Til April in Paris.
Whom can I run to
What have you done to
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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
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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!
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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
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Once I built a railroad, I made it run,
made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it’s done.
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