Appreciation …

… O’er the Fields and Through the Leigh. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… beneath the polished surfaces of their contrasting writing styles, Fields and Leigh (both Jewish girls from New York) were cut from the same distinctive cloth of character. As lyricists, they viewed the world—in particular, the world of men—with a bright, knowing sassiness tinged with cynicism that is their shared defining characteristic. And though they wrote believably, even poignantly, of romance, their songs very frequently hint at the fact that men and women in love have been known to do more together when alone than hold hands.