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Yip Harburg

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We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.
--
"We're Off to See the Wizard" in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

 
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