Friar's Club Tribute Harold Arlen

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen
 The warm and close relationship between a songwriter and a singer is traditional
 It has never been better evidenced than the presence here tonight
 Of several great ASCAP composers
 To join in the tribute to a shining star, Barbra Streisand
 Now, each one of them has something to say
 And may I introduce them to you
 George Bernard Shaw once said that, "Hell was filled with musical amateurs"
 That remark alone assures Harold Arlen a place in Heaven
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 I'm gonna love you
 Like nobody's loved you
 Come Ray or come Stark
 My Brooklyn princess
 Who eats her cheese blendses
 Above Central Park
 Travels with her Jason
 To the chic, Paris salons
 Then gets a new face on
 That is not quite British
 But beautifully yiddish
 She overcame me
 With clothes, ca-ca-may me
 From Bergdorf and Klein's
 She broke our records
 Including my records
 But not Jule Styne's
 Her days will always be sunny
 With chunks full of taxable money
 But I'm with you, Brunhilda
 I'm with you, rain or shine