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

—  Yip Harburg

"When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" in Finian's Rainbow (1946) - Tommy Steele version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npe7cbcMzUA

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American song lyricist 1896–1981

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