Harvey and Sheila by Allan Sherman
Harvey and Sheila by Allan Sherman

Harvey and Sheila

Allan Sherman * Track #6 On My Son, The Celebrity

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Harvey and Sheila by Allan Sherman

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Allan Sherman
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Performed to the tune of the popular Israeli folk song “Hava Nagila,” this song describes the prototypical midcentury American Jewish experience of assimilation. According to his biographer Mark Cohen, Sherman “felt ‘Harvey and Sheila’ was really closer to the truth about American Jewish life than ‘...

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Harvey and Sheila Lyrics

Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Oh the day they met

Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
No one will forget

Harvey's a CPA
He works for IBM
He went to MIT
And got his PhD

Sheila's a girl I know
At BBD&O
She works the PBX
And makes out the checks

Then came one great day when
Harvey took the elevator
Sheila got in two floors later
Soon they both felt they were falling
Everyone heard Sheila calling
"RING THE BELL"
But they fell
Harv and Sheila fell in love

Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Chose a wedding ring

Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Married in the spring

She shopped at A&P
He bought a used MG
They sat and watched TV
On their RCA

Borrowed from HFC
Bought some AT&T
And on election day
Worked for JFK

Then they went and got a
Charge-a-plate from R.H. Macy's
Bought a layette
Pink and lacey
Then they had twin baby girls
Both with dimples
Both with curls
One named Bea
One named Kay
Soon they joined the PTA

Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Moved to west LA

Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Flew TWA

They bought a house one day
Financed by FHA
It had a swimming pool
Full of H2O

Traded their used MG
For a new XKE
Switched to the GOP
That's the way things go

Oh, that Harvey, he was
Really smart, he used his noodle
Sheila bought a white French poodle
Went to Europe with a visa
Harvey's rich, they say that he's a
VIP
This could be
Only in the USA

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