Many years ago, I commented to Pete that his melody for "The Old Man's Song":

How do I know my youth is all spent?
My get up and go has got up and went.
In spite of it all, I'm able to grin
When I think of the places my get up has been.

is very similar to the melody for "Officer Krumpke" from "West Side Story." When I asked him whether they had a common origin, he commented: "Since Lenny and I were both at Harvard about the same time, they probably both descended from 'Fair Harvard.'" We have been trading similarities back and forth ever since.