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Fred Astaire's, "I Can't Be Bothered Now"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm up among the stars
Unearthly things I've found.
Unearthly things I've found.
Original Lyrics:
I'm up among the stars
On earthly things, I frown.
On earthly things, I frown.
Song originally composed by George Gershwin; lyrics written by his brother Ira; written for the 1937 film "A Damsel In Distress," starring Fred Astaire, who performed it in the film. Ella Fitzgerald later recorded it (in the late 1950's).
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