[78-L] Obama quotes Dorothy Fields (not OT, the song was on 78)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Jan 20 10:21:59 PST 2009


"Starting Today, We Must Pick Ourselves Up, Dust Ourselves Off, and Begin Again 
the Work of Remaking America"

I mentioned to a theatre friend that a Dorothy Fields lyric had been 
paraphrased and he asked which one. When I told him, he replied that he'd 
expected "Hey, Big Spender" or "There's Gotta Be Something Better than This". 
Both good choices.

(No idea who that poet Elizabeth Whatsername is, but Robert Frost she ain't.)

dl




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