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Scatterlings Of Africa, by Johnny Clegg.
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Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
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One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
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