Zip

I've interviewed Leslie Howard

I've interviewed Noel Coward

I've interviewed the great Stravinsky

But my greatest achievement

Is the interview I had

With the star who worked for Minsky

I met her at the Yankee Clipper

And she didn't unzip one zipper

I said Miss Lee you are such an artist

Tell me why you never miss

What do you think of

Why you worried and she said

While I work my thoughts go something like this

Zip Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today

Zip will Saroyan ever write a great play

Zip I was reading Schopenhauer last night

Zip and I think that Schopenhauer was right

I don't want to see Zorina

I don't want to meet Cobina

Zip I'm an intellectual

I don't like a deep Contralto

Or a man whose voice is Alto

Zip I'm a heterosexual

Zip it took intellect to master my art

Zip who the hell is Margie Hart

Zip Toscanini leads the greatest of bands

Zip Jergens Lotion does the trick for his hands

Zip Rip Van Winkle on the screen would be smart

Zip Tyrone Power will be cast in the part

I have read the great Cabala

And I simply worship Allah

Zip I am just a mystic

I don't care for Whistler's mother

Charlie's aunt or Schubert's brother

Zip I'm misogynistic

Zip my intelligence is guiding my hand

Zip who the hell is Sally Rand