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[Laurence Horn]

At 2:00 PM -0400 10/25/07, Doug Harris wrote:
>Then, of course, there's the Rogers and Hart (the other LH) version:
>http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/manhattan_1925_not_i
>ll_take_manhattan/

Different sense of "take", though.  Cohen's is more the hostile takeover model.

--"Lorenz" H.

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>(And notice who's URL that is!!!
>(the other) doug
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>A variant from Leonard Cohen (the "I'm Your Man" album):
>
>First we take Manhattan,
>Then we take Berlin
>
>Refrain of "First we take Manhattan"; full lyrics at
>http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/FIRST-WE-TAKE-MANHATTAN-lyrics-Leonar
>d-Cohen/926CCB64249F308848256AF00028CB85.
>Also cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFBKV0zVXSE for a very
>Cohenian music video with many seagulls.
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