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E.Y. “Yip” Harburg

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, an essay by Benjamin Sears, Harburg scholar and performer, 1999.

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The pleasyure of your company will always be enjoyed
If your language is discreet and euphemistically employed.
You’ll be tops with elite, though your behavior is absurd
If you’re careful not to mention ONE unmentionable Word:

D    R   U   N   K

For…………

Beau-shi-ful People get blitzed and get bashed
Soaked till their eyeballs are sunk.
Beau-shi-ful People get sloshed and get smashed
But never oh never get drunk.

.  .  .  .

They may get misty on straight Irish Mist
Slop till they flop in a funk.
Beau-shi-ful People get potted and pissed
But never oh never get DRUNK.

They may gulp and SIP and guzzle
Get a little sizzled
Make a little hay
Get juiced up and doused up
And even get a little soused up
And looped up and loused up
and G…A…Y…

But never D….R….U….N….K.

Lyric excerpt: “Drunk”
Words: Yip Harburg – Music: Philip Springer
Undated/Unpublished

The theme of this song is social double standards, echoing the earlier “When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich” which Yip wrote with composer Burton Lane for the Broadway musical Finian’s Rainbow (1947). 

 

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