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Bloomer Girl: Oct. 3-5, 2014

September 18, 2014 ypadmin

Bloomer Girl, Yip’s 1944 musical with Harold Arlen and a book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy,  was ahead of its time with its feminist and anti-racist themes.  At the Provincetown Playhouse in NYC Oct. 3-5, 2014.

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Verse
I’m a philosopher
  like Plato and Socrates were.
Ev’ry morning when they rose,
  they philosophoze.

I think I’m one of those.

Chorus
Hunger is nothing but wanting to eat,
Walking is nothing but moving your feet,
Sleeping is lying all night on a sheet,
Aw! What’s the use?
. . .
Crying is letting some salt water squirt,
Washing is just making room for more dirt,
Love gets you only a wrinkled up shirt,
Aw! What’s the use?

Excerpt from “Aw! What’s the Use?”
This comically cynical lyric was probably intended for but unused in the Paramount feature film The Sap from Syracuse (1930, unpublished).
Lyric: Yip Harburg; Music: Johnny Green

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