Josephine Baker, "I Have Two Loves"

One of Josephine Baker's most evocative songs was "J'ai deux amours" ["I Have Two Loves"], containing the famous lines:

J'ai deux amours --
Mon pays et Paris
Paris toujours
C'est mon rêve joli

I have two loves --
My country and Paris
Paris forever
That's my pretty dream.

The song was originally developed for her role in the show Paris qui remue [Paris Sizzles] in which she played a young native girl from the French empire in love with a dashing young Frenchmen. But audiences assumed that the "my country" was America. Later, Baker changed the line to "My country is Paris."