Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
ALAN JAY LERNER
ALAN JAY LERNER
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Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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