The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56590   Message #891046
Posted By: Art Thieme
15-Feb-03 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: Give me you tired, your poor--??????????
Subject: RE: Give me you tired, your poor--??????????
Yes, the title I gave this thread did come from Emma Lazarus and the poem that made the inscription on the base of the Statue Of Liberty. How Irving Berlin and Dory Previn made their way into this, I cannot fathom. But I was a folksinger----and knew little of moon-June-croon and-spoon music.

As far as I know, that inscription is still there on Ms Liberty and still our ideal...

Art Thieme