Done Too Soon

Jesus Christ Fanny BriceWolfie Mozart and Humphrey BogartAnd Genghis KhanAnd on to H. G. WellsHo Chi Minh Gunga DinHenry Luce and John Wilkes BoothAnd Alexanders King and Graham BellRamar Krishna Mama WhistlerPatrice Lumumba and Russ ColomboKarl and Chico MarxAlbert CamusE. A. Poe Henri RousseauSholom Aleichem and Caryl ChessmanAlan Freed and Buster Keaton tooAnd each one thereHas one thing sharedThey have sweated beneath the same sunLooked up in wonder at the same moonAnd wept when it was all doneFor bein done too soonFor bein done too soonFor bein done