yip harburg: yes. i wrote a song for cabin in the sky, which ethel waters sang and was part of the situation in the picture. here was a poor woman who had nothing in life except this one man, joe, and she sang, "it seemed like happiness is just a thing called joe." one of the producers, with not a macroscope, but a microscope, found in this lyric that "happiness is just a thing called joe" was a tribute to joe stalin. we're kidding about it now, but the country, this was the blackest, the blackest and darkest moment in the history of this beautiful country. of this beautiful country. ernie harburg: now, here we are at finian's rainbow at last. and this wasyip conceived this in 1946. and fred saidy, who was his co- script writerand harold arlen demurred from writing this, because he felt that yip was too fervent in his political opinions, and he wantedharold wanted to do something else. so yip got burt lane and then came out with this great, great score from finian's rainbow, "old devil moon." "how are