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“S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!”

“There's a somebody I'm longing to see,
I hope that he, turns out to be,
someone to watch over me.”

“Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.”

“You've made my life so glamorous,
You can't blame me for feeling amorous.
'S wonderful, 's marvellous
That you should care for me.”

“Poor Jenny, bright as a penny!
Her equal would be hard to find.
She lost one dad and mother,
A sister and a brother--
But she would make up her mind.”

“You like potato and I like po-tah-to,
You like tomato and I like to-mah-to;
Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to –
Let's call the whole thing off!”

“They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round;
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.”

“In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble,
They're only made of clay,
But our love is here to stay.”

“Summertime and the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.
Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.”

“It ain't necessarily so,
It ain't necessarily so.
De t'ings dat yo' li'ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.”

“I got rhythm,
I got music,
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?”