Wordsmith

Sheldon Harnick was a songwriter probably best known for the music to "Fiddler on the Roof."
He has a clever way with words which the Kingston Trio, that extremely popular folkish group from the 1950s and 60s, took full advantage of when they usurped two of his songs. 

The first is called "The Shape of Things"


and the other, perhaps better known, is "The Merry Minuet"

I love the Kingston Trio's, Tom Dooley, it's hauntingly beautiful.

Hang Your Head and Cry

Thanks, I missed that before but very well researched and written. 

as always...many thanks. I enjoy your postings very much.

"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."  - Mark Twain

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That's very kind of you to say.

One would have a difficult task to find someone better to quote than Mark Twain. 

These three are joy-givers! Thanks!