Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
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Hey Ya, by OutKast.
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When The Saints Go Marching In, by a New Orleans second line band.
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A hymn called The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended.
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The Resurrection Shuffle.
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A sense of optimism.
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