“Land’s End” by August Kleinzahler from Hollyhocks in the Fog: Selected San Francisco Poems. © Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2017. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 It’s the birthday of George M. Cohan, born in Providence, Rhode Island (1878). He wrote hundreds of songs and more than 40 shows and musicals. Critics didn’t like them, but theatergoers loved them. In 1904, his breakout show,
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I thought the line in “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” was “Born on the 4th of July!” Was George lying to us all these years? :)
This is the correct link: https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=10247.html
I thought the line in “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” was “Born on the 4th of July!” Was George lying to us all these years? :)