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

[Royal Pemberton]

On 1/20/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> "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
Do you think he'll invoke 'Don't blame me' 4 or 8 years from now?

That was a poem?  [Erm, coat....]