Lydia the Tattooed Lady
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title:
Lydia the Tattooed Lady
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"Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" is a 1939 song written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen. It first appeared in the Marx Brothers film At the Circus (1939) and became one of Groucho Marx's signature tunes.
It subsequently appeared in the movie The Philadelphia Story (1940), sung by Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord. The complex lyrics by Harburg – with clever rhymes such as "Lydia/encyclopedia" and "Amazon/pajamas on" – were inspired by W. S. Gilbert. Harburg made many contemporary references to topical pe
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1939 song written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_the_Tattooed_Lady
date created:
2004-02-24T16:52:22Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T05:10:02Z
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