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Thank You For The Music by Abba.
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Dylan’s I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.
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When The Saints Go Marching In, by a New Orleans second line band.
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Townes Van Zandt’s To Live Is To Fly.
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The James Bond theme tune Nobody Does It Better.
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President Jimmy Carter, for his single-handedness in working to eradicate the guinea worm.
I cook a mean dal.
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Now, by far. Old enough to know time’s short, young enough to use it.
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