Somewhere over the Paper Moon

(Dan and Susan)
Somewhere over the paper moon
There sails a lyrical ship
Made of irreverant memories
Of a songwriter known as "Yip"
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Spoken by Dan: Lead Kindly Light
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(Susan)
Where Bishop Patrick crossed the street
An "X" now marks the spot
The light of God was with him
(Dan)
But the traffic light was not
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Spoken by Dan: A nose is a nose is a nose
(Susan)
Mother, mother tell me
(Dan)
Mother, mother tell me please
(Dan and Susan)
Did God who made the flowers and trees
(Susan)
Also provide the allergies
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Spoken by Dan: Federal Reserve
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(Dan)
In nineteen hundred and twenty-nine
When the banks went bust
(Susan)
In '29 when the banks went bust
Our coins still read "In God We Trust"
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Spoken by Dan: Three bolts, no strikes
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(Susan)
When lightening struck the steeple of the church of San José
(Dan)
It barely missed the brothel
That was just across the way
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Spoken by Dan: Realist
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(Dan)
For what we are about to receive
Oh Lord, 'tis thee we thank
(Susan)
Said the cannibal as he cut a slice
Of the missionary's shank
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Spoken by Dan: Less Majest
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(Susan)
Doesn't even matter
How high or great the throne
(Dan)
No matter how high or great the throne
What sits on it is the same as your own
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Spoken by Dan: Small comforts
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(Susan)
Before I was born I seemed to be contented with being non-be-able
(Dan)
So after I'm gone it seems to me
My lot should be not less agreeable
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Spoken by Dan: The man who has everything
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(Susan)
For a halo up in Heaven
I have never been too keen
(Dan)
Who needs another gadget
That a fellow has to clean?
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Spoken by Dan: Strike Three
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(Susan)
A broken clock can tell the time correctly twice a day
(Dan)
Astrologers, like broken clocks
Are clairvoyant that way
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Spoken by Dan: Agnostic
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(Dan)
No matter how much I probe and prod
I cannot quite believe in God
(Susan)
But oh I hope to God that he
Unswervingly believes in me
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Spoken by Dan: Atheist
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(Susan)
Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree
And only God who makes the tree
Also makes the fools like me
(Dan)
But only fools like me, you see
Can make a God who makes a tree
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(Dan and Susan)
Somewhere over the paper moon
There sails a lyrical ship
Made of irreverant memories
Of a songwriter known as "Yip"



Credits
Writer(s): Daniel Barker, Yip Harburg
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