[Leica] A Few Words from Stan Freberg

[rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)]

Stan Freberg is one of my heroes.

Jim, you are too.

--Bob

===On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Jim Shulman <jshul at comcast.net> wrote:
> >From Stan Freberg's
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> Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America (1961)
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> "Everybody Wants to be an Art Director"
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> A Song with Besty Ross http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flaglife.html and
> George Washington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington
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> George:
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> Look at the colors you chose
> The best you could do I suppose
> A peppermint stripe with royal blue
> The same as the British colors too
> Now how will we tell whose side is who?
> Look at the colors you chose
> Why couldn't it have been puce
> Lavender over chartreuse
> Or possibly some exotic shade
> A delicate orange, mauve, or jade
> Instead of the choice that has been made
> Why couldn't it have been possibly cinnamon
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> Betsy:
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> Everybody wants to be an art director
> Everybody wants to call the shots
> Everybody wants to be a flag dissector
> Changing all my stars to polka dots
> Everybody thinks that they're the final word
> On what is strictly out and what is in
> Howdja like a flag that features fleur-de-lis
> On ochre corrugated tin!
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