“After.” Ocean Grove, New Jersey. By Paul Goldfinger  ©. 2012.

SOUNDTRACK.  Stanley Turrentine: “Then I’ll be Tired of You.”

This song was written in 1934 by Arthur Schwartz and E.Y. Harburg.  “Yip” Harburg wrote the lyrics and he is famous for writing the words for so many classics including “April in Paris” and all the lyrics for the Wizard of Oz—-“If I only had a brain….”

Wiki note re Yip Harburg:    Edgar “Yip” Harburg attended high school with Ira Gershwin.  They met over a shared fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan and worked on the school paper becoming lifelong friends.

According to his son Ernie Harburg, the Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw taught his father that “humor is an act of courage,and dissent.”