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If it Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews Lyrics by Billy Murray

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[Verse 1]
I just returned from Europe, I’ve seen London and Paris
And I’m glad to get back home to Yankee land
In fact the little USA looks better now to me
It’s the real place for the real folks, understand
But still I often sit and think what would this country be
If we hadn’t men like Rosenstein and Hughes
You’d surely have a kingdom, there’d be no democracy
If it wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews
[Chorus]
What would this great Yankee nation
Really, really ever do
If it wasn’t for a Levy
A Monaghan or Donahue
Where would we get our policemen
Why Uncle Sam would have the blues
Without the Pats and Isidors you’d have no big department stores
If it wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews
[Verse 2]
You all know Charlie Frohman and his brother Dan, of course
How often have you laughed at Louis Mann?
And Lew and Joel who used to run the little music hall
And that wonder clever George M. Cohan
Dave Warfield, Peter Daly, Charlie Ross, and Andrew Mack
For years and years they drove away the blues
Where would you get your actors from, I’d really like to know
If it wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews
[Chorus]
What would you do for amusement
There would be no place to go
If it wasn’t for the Shuberts
Frank McKee and Marcus Loew
K and E and Billy Brady
Hammerstein I must include
I once heard Dave Belasco say you couldn’t stage your play today
If it wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews
[Verse]
Talk about a combination
Heed my words and make a note
On Saint Patrick’s Day, Rosinsky pins a shamrock on his coat
There’s a sympathetic feeling
Between the Blooms and McAdoos
Why, Tammany would surely fall and really be no hall at all
If it wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews
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