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'As I walk through the halls, I see teachers teaching and students learning and I say to myself, 'what wonderful school, what a wonderful world.''

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

"This next song is just a song. Try not to read anything into it."

Final words on gravestones.

Fuzz - Fuzzy writes a song with something missing.

Jim Morrison Goes Camping

"This next song I wrote I won't sing due to political correctness."

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

Tragedy! When the feeling's gone and you can't go on.

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

"As Tom gets nostalgic to Don McLean's 'American Pie,' baby Charles utters his first words... Too long."

"I feel that what would really give your next album a major boost would be some kind of well-publicized personal problem."

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

Old songs made new

"Well, we've for the melody down now, but I'm still not sure about the part where it goes, '...and they call the wind Dorcas Schnickelbaum.'"

"Great moments in songwriting" "What if she had a little lamb?" "Maybe it follows her to school?" "Wouldn't that make the children laugh?" "Exactly."

"How come they remember every word of any pop song but not a single line of poetry?"

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

'100% Grammatically Correct Popular Tunes'

'Oh it's fantastic. It's my thirty fourth favourite sub-genre of progressive rock.'

"We'd like to take a majority position in your poetry."

'This next one I wrote myself. It's about pain, misery and heartbreak, until I finally wised up and dumped him.'

"Yeah, most people are surprised when they learn I'm actually a lyricist."

"Moon….June Croon….Loon… …Tycoon"

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."