When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near. - Yip Harburg

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

Yip Harburg

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Edgar Yipsel Harburg (8 April 1896 – 4 March 1981), born Isidore Hochberg and known primarily as E. Y. Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. He is most famous for his lyrics for The Wizard of Oz (1939), including those of "Over the Rainbow".

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Pen Names: Edgar Yipsel Harburg

Birth Name: Isidore Hochberg

Native Name: Yip Harsburg

Also Known As: Yip

Alternative Names: Edgar Yipsel "Yip" Harburg • E. Y. Harburg

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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! Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?

No matter how much I probe and prod, I cannot quite believe in God;
But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me.

As the writer of the lyric of the song ‘God’s Country’, I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near. - Yip Harburg

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