Yip Harburg: 1896-1981 – “I think therefore I am… in jail”

Somewhere over the rainbow,
Way up high
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

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Lives of great men all remind us,
Greatness takes no easy way.
All the heroes of tomorrow
are the heretics of today.

Socrates and Galileo,
John Brown, Thoreau,
or Christ, and Debs
Heard the night cry “Down with traitors,”
And the dawn shout “Up the rebs!”

Nothing ever seems to bust them —
Gallows, crosses, prison bars;
Tho’ we try to readjust them
There they are amongst the stars

Why do great men all remind us
We can write our names on high
And departing leave behind us
Thumbprints in the FBI.

His book Rhymes for the Irreverent on the Freedom From Religion website.

ATHEIST

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree;

And only God who makes the tree
Also makes the fools like me.

But only fools like me, you see,
Can make a God, who makes a tree.