Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice
  Wolfie Mozart and Humphrey Bogart
  And Genghis Khan
  And on to H. G. Wells
  
  Ho Chi Minh, Gunga Din
  Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth
  And Alexanders King and Graham Bell
  
  Ramar Krishna, Mama Whistler
  Patrice Lumumba and Russ Colombo
  Karl and Chico Marx
  Albert Camus,
  
  E. A. Poe, Henri Rousseau
  Sholom Aleichem and Caryl Chessman
  Alan Freed and Buster Keaton too
  
  And each one there
  Has one thing shared
  They have sweated beneath the same sun
  Looked up in wonder at the same moon
  And wept when it was all done
  For bein' done too soon
  For bein' done too soon
  For bein' done