Friendship -- Just a Perfect Blendship

"A friend is dearer to us than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were extinguished than that we should be without friends." (St John Chrysostom)
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"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price....." (Sirach 6:14-15).


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Du Barry Was a Lady
Music: Cole PorterLyrics: Cole Porter
Book: B. G. DeSylva + Herbert Fields
Premiere: Wednesday, December 6, 1939
----Friendship
Judy: If you're ever in a jam, here I am
Johnny: If you're ever in a mess, S.O.S.
Judy: If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail
Both: It's friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blendship
When other friendships have been forgot
Ours will still be hot
Judy: A-lottle-dottle-dottle-dig-dig-dig
Johnny: If you're ever down a well, ring my bell
Judy: And if you're ever up a tree just phone to me
Johnny: A-yes-sir-eeIf you ever lose your teeth and you're out to dine, borrow mine
Both: It's friendship, friendshipJust a perfect blendship
When other friendships have been forgate
Johnny: Gate?
Both: Ours will still be great
Johnny: A-lottle-dottle-dottle-chuck-chuck-chuck
Judy: If they ever black your eyes, put me wise
Johnny: If they ever cook your goose, turn me loose
Judy: And if they ever put a bullet through your brain, I'll complain
Both: It's friendship, friendshipJust a perfect blendship
When other friendships have been forgit
Ours will still be it
Judy: A-lottle-dottle-dottle-hep-hep-hep
Johnny: If you ever lose your mind, I'll be kind
Judy: And if you ever lose your shirt, I'll be hurt
Johnny: If you're ever in a mill and get sawed in half, I won't laugh
Both: It's friendship, friendshipJust a perfect blendship
When other friendships are up the crick
Ours will still be slick
A-lottle-dottle-dottle-woof-woof-woof
hep-hep-hepa-chuck-chuck-chucka-dig-dig-dig

Always end with Chesterton:
"Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections." (Illustrated London News, June 6, 1931)

"A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything more or less anyhow, the mixture may be called unity, and the unity may be called peace. It is supposed that, if you break down all doors and walls so that there is no domesticity, there will then be nothing but friendship. Surely somebody must have noticed by this time that the men living in a hotel quarrel at least as often as the men living in a street." (ILN September 8, 1917)

"Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness." (What I Saw In America)

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." - ILN, 7/16/10

"When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them." - Chesterton Review, February, 1984
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