"Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say; People just liked it better that way. Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks!"
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Jimmy Kennedy
Jimmy Kennedy OBE (20 July 1902 β 6 April 1984) was an Irish songwriter.
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