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In Good Old Colony Times

"In Good Old Colony Times," Lyrics, Text Format
"In Good Old Colony Times," Lyrics, Text Format

American history, character education, and multiple fermatas
to make it all more meaningful and fun!

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Traditional Colonial Song
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABaB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ti ti ta | ta/a (ta) ta |
    | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta_ (ti) ti | ti ti ta ta_ (ti) ti |
    | ta/a/a ta | (_=fermata)
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
  • Intervals: beginners: So/Do (P4), Do/Mi (M3), Mi\Do (M3), Ti\So (m3), La/Do (m3), Re\Ti (M3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, multiple fermatas (4), tied notes, vocal slur, melodic rhythm patterns, verse/chorus
  • Key Words: USA history, American Colonies song, American Revolution song, character education, roguish, chaps, mishaps, miller, weaver, tailor, corn, yarn, broadcloth, drowned, hung, devil, clapped, claw, devil’s claw
  • Recorder: intermediate: introducing F#

“In Good Old Colony Times” 
1. In good old colony times,
When we were under the king.
Three roguish chaps fell into mishaps,
Because they could not sing,

Because they could not sing,
Because they could not sing,
Three roguish chaps fell into mishaps,
Because they could not sing.
2.
 The first he was a miller,
And the second he was a weaver,
And the third he was a little tailor,
Three roguish chaps together.

Three roguish chaps together,
Three roguish chaps together,
And the third he was a tailor,
Three roguish chaps together.
3. Now the miller he stole corn,
And the weaver he stole yarn,
And the little tailor he stole broadcloth,
To keep these three rogues warm.

To keep these three rogues warm,
To keep these three rogues warm,
And the little tailor he stole broadcloth, To keep these three rogues warm.
4. The miller got drowned in his dam,
The weaver got hung in his yarn,
And the devil clapped his claw on the little tailor,
With the broadcloth under his arm.

With the broadcloth under his arm,
With the broadcloth under his arm,
And the devil clapped his claw on the little tailor,
With the broadcloth under his arm.
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I’m On My Way

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Syncopated echo patterns, rising melodic patterns, and an ascending dominate arpeggio.

 

Description

• Grade: Fifth (5)

• Origin: African American Spiritual

• Key: F Major

• Time: 4/4

• Form: Rhythm: AAAB – Pitches: AaaB

• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta | ta/a/a/a | ta ti ti ti ta/ | syncopation | (ta) ti ti ti ta/ | syncopation | ta/a/a ta |

• Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La

• Intervals: intermediate: Ti\So, So/Ti (M3), Mi\Do, Do/Mi (M3), Mi\Ti (P4), So/Ti/Re ascending dominate triad, Re\So (P5)

• Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: none; pickup measure, echo song, repeated syncopated rhythm, dominate triad, tied notes

• Key Words: United Sates history, African American history, civil rights movement, adaptation of the African American Spiritual “I’m On My Way To Canaan Land,” freedom land (equal rights), brother, sister

“I’m On My Way”

1.

I’m on my way to freedom land
I’m on my way to freedom land
I’m on my way to freedom land
I’m on my way, Great God
Im on my way.

2.

I asked my brother to come with me
I asked my brother to come with me
I asked my brother to come with me
I’m on my way, Great God
Im on my way.

3.I asked my sister to come with me
I asked my sister to come with me
I asked my sister to come with me
I’m on my way, Great God
Im on my way.

4.I’m on my way, I won’t turn back
I’m on my way, I won’t turn back
I’m on my way, I won’t turn back
I’m on my way, Great God
Im on my way.

5.If they say no, I’ll go alone
If they say no, I’ll go alone
If they say no, I’ll go alone
I’m on my way, Great God
Im on my way.

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I Am A Young Musician

"I Am A Young Musician," Lyrics, Text Format
"I Am A Young Musician," Lyrics, Text Format

Beginning syncopation, tonic arpeggio,
and making vocal sounds for instruments:
drum, fiddle, French horn, clarinet, guitar, flute.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Traditional
  • Key: F Major 
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: AABCb
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti | ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta (ti) ti ri | syncopation,
    | ti ti ti ti ri | syncopation
  • Pitches: beginners: So Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Mi/So (m3), Do\So/Do (P4), Fa\Re (m3), Do/So8 (P5), Re/So8(P4), So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio (I, F)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, melodic rhythm patterns, syncopation 
  • Key Words: world geography: London, Berlin (Germany), Paris (France); vocal sounds of instruments, sounding like instruments: drum, fiddle (violin/viola), French horn, clarinet, guitar, flute; instrument families: percussion, strings, brass, woodwinds; skipping, singing, swaying, playing, musician, traveled, toot, silver flute; contraction: you’ve (you have), I’ve (I have)
  • Recorder: intermediate: introducing B flat


“I Am A Young Musician” 
1.
 I am a young musician, from London I have come,
And I can play sweet music upon my little drum.
Trr-um-pum pum, trr-um-pum pum,
Trr-um-pum pum, trr-um-pum pum.
Skipping and playing, singing and swaying,
Trr-um-pum pum, trr-um-pum pum,
Trr-um-pum pum pum pum!
2.
 I am a young musician, I come from old Berlin,
And I can play sweet music upon my violin,
Fiddle-dee-dee-dee, fiddle-dee-dee-dee,
Fiddle-dee-dee-dee, fiddle-dee-dee-dee.
Skipping and playing, singing and swaying,
Fiddle-dee-dee-dee, fiddle-dee-dee-dee,
Fiddle-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
3. I am a young musician, in Paris I was born,
And I can play sweet music upon my big French horn,
Baw-baw-baw-baw-baw, baw-baw-baw-baw-baw,
Baw-baw-baw-baw-baw, baw-baw-baw-baw-baw.
Skipping and playing, singing and swaying,
Baw-baw-baw-baw-baw, baw-baw-baw-baw-baw,
Baw-baw-baw-baw-baw-baw-baw!
4. I am a young musician, the best you’ve ever met,
And I can play sweet music upon my clarinet,
Doodle-doo-doo-doo, doodle-doo-doo-doo,
Doodle-doo-doo-doo, doodle-doo-doo-doo.
Skipping and playing, singing and swaying,
Doodle-doo-doo-doo, doodle-doo-doo-doo,
Doodle-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
5. I am a young musician, I’ve traveled very far,
And I can play sweet music upon my fine guitar,
Plunky-plunk-plunk-plunk, plunky-plunk-plunk-plunk,
Plunky-plunk-plunk-plunk, plunky-plunk-plunk-plunk.
Skipping and playing, singing and swaying,
Plunky-plunk-plunk-plunk, plunky-plunk-plunk-plunk,
Plunky-plunk-plunk-plunk-plunk-plunk!
6. I am a young musician, just listen to me toot,
And I can play sweet music upon my silver flute,
Tooty-toot-toot-toot, tooty-toot-toot-toot,
Tooty-toot-toot-toot, tooty-toot-toot-too.
Skipping and playing, singing and swaying,
Tooty-toot-toot-toot, tooty-toot-toot-toot, Tooty-toot-toot-toot-toot-toot!
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The Holly and the Ivy

"The Holly and the Ivy," Lyrics, Text Format
"The Holly and the Ivy," Lyrics, Text Format

Beginning syncopation and intervals
and a melody without a leading tone.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: England – Traditional
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: AA
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta | ta ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta/a ti ti | ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta |
    | ta/a (ti) ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: beginners: Do/La8 (M6), Mi\Do (m3), Do/Mi (M3), Mi\La (P5), So/Do (P4)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, fermata, syncopation, vocal slur
  • Key Words: world geography: England; seasonal song, holiday season, Christmas carol, sacred, grown, trees, bears, crown, rising sun, running deer, merry organ, singing choir, blossom, lily, Mary, mother of Jesus, Jesus Christ, birth of Jesus, saviour, berry, poor sinners, prickle, sharp thorn, Christmas Day, morn, bark, bitter gall, redeem, abbreviation: flow’rs (flower)
  • Recorder: intermediate: introducing B flat

“The Holly and the Ivy” 
1. The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown,
Of all trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
Refrain:
O, the rising of the sun,
And the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry organ,
Sweet singing in the choir.
2.
 The holly bears a blossom,
As white as lily flow’rs,
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ,
To be our dear Saviour.
Refrain
3. The holly bears a berry,
As red as any blood,
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good.
Refrain
4. The holly bears a prickle,
As sharp as any thorn,
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ,
On Christmas Day in the morn.
Refrain
5. The holly bears a bark,
As bitter as the gall,
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ,
For to redeem us all.
Refrain
6. The holly and the ivy ,
Now both are full well grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood, The holly bears the crown.
Refrain
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Hello! Ma Baby

"Hello! Ma Baby," Lyrics, Text Format

Syncopation, ascending tonic arpeggio with added seventh (I7, F7), and sharped tonic (Di).

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: USA – Ida Emerson, Joseph E. Howard (1899)
  • Key: F Major 
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: staves: ABaC – song: AB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ta ti ta ta | syncopation,
    | ta/a/a/a | ta/a/a (ta) | ta ta ta ta | ti ti ta/a ta |
  • Pitches: intermediate: La Do Di Re Mi Fa So La Ti – raised/sharp tonic (Di)
  • Intervals: intermediate: Re\La (P4), La/Mi (P5), Re\Di (m2) Di/Mi (m3), Re/So (P4), So\Do (P5), Do/Mi/So/Ti ascending tonic arpeggio w/seventh (I7, F7) Do/Mi (M3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; syncopation, melodic rhythm patterns, raised/sharp tonic (Di) 
  • Key Words: USA history, Tin Pan Alley, first song about the telephone, long distance courting/romance, ragtime, refuse; contractions: heart’s (heart is), you’ll (you will), you’re (you are)
  • Recorder: intermediate: introducing Bb and F#

The song’s subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone. Better know for the chorus which is represented here. Introductory song in the famous Warner Bros. cartoon “One Froggy Evening” (1955), sung by the character later dubbed Michigan J. Frog.


“Hello! Ma Baby” 

Hello! ma baby,
Hello! ma honey,
Hello! ma ragtime gal,
Send me a kiss by wire,
Baby my heart’s on fire!
If you refuse me,
Honey, you’ll lose me,
Then you’ll be left alone;
Oh, baby, telephone
And tell me you’re my own!

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Haul Away, Joe

"Haul Away, Joe," Lyrics, Text Format

Melody is centered around the supertonic (Re) in B Flat Major.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: England – Traditional Sheet* Sea Chantey
  • Key: B Flat Major 
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: staves: ABAB – song: AB
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta | ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/ ti | syncopation, |ti/ ri ta | syncopation
  • Pitches: intermediate: Re So La Ti Do Re
  • Intervals: beginners: La/Re8\La (P4), La/Do (m3), La\Re/La (P4)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation, vocal slur, call/response 
  • Key Words: world geography: England, Ireland (Irish), Dublin, France; King Louis, St. Patrick, chantey (French word ‘chanter’ – to sing), sailing work song, call/response, tiny lad, haul, lips, moldy, pretty girl, tarry, marry, Yankee, Irish, drove, crazy, revolution, French Revolution, spoiled, constitution, be-headed, gentleman, decent, steeple; contraction: we’ll (we will); abbreviation: kiss’d (kissed)
  • Recorder: intermediate: introducing F and G above high C

*Halyard Chanties: songs for hauling sails; resting on the call lines, heaving on the response lines. Shorter songs like “Haul Away Joe” were called “sheet shanties.”


“Haul Away, Joe” 
Call
Response
1.
 When I was just a tiny lad, my dear old mother told me,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
That if I never kiss’d a girl my lips would go all moldy.
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
2. So, when I kiss’d a pretty girl, I would have to tarry,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
But girls don’t want to kiss and run; they all would like to marry.
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
3. First I met a Yankee girl and she was fat and lazy,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
And then I met an Irish girl, she nearly drove me crazy,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
4. King Louis was the King of France before the revolution,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
And then he got his head cut off, it spoiled his constitution,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
5. St. Patrick was a gentleman, he came form decent people,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
He built a church in Dublin town and on it put a steeple,
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe.
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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

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Six perfect fourths, a dominate octave skip, and,
repeating melodic rhythm patterns highlight this storied carol.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: England/German – words: Charles Wesley, 1739
    music: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), 1840*
  • Key: F major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCDE
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta/ ti | syncopation,
    | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a | ta ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: m3: Re\Ti, Fa\Re; M3: Do/Mi; P4: So/Do, Re/So8, Do\So, So8\Re, Do/Fa, Mi/La; P5: So\Do, Re/La; P8: So/So8 (dominante octave skip)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; vocal slurs, repeating melodic rhythm patterns, dominant octave skip
  • Key Words: world geography: England, Germany, Bethlehem; invention of the Gutenberg printing press, William H. Cummings, sacred, Christmas Carol, Christmas hymn, birth of Jesus, Bible story, hark, herald angels, glory, newborn, mercy mild, God, sinners, reconciled, triumph, angelic host, proclaim, Heaven, Prince of Peace, hail, righteousness, risen, healing, Sons of earth, second birth; abbreviations: heav’n (heaven), th’angelic (the angelic), ris’n (risen)

*One hundred years after the words were written, Felix Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johann Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. Music from this cantata was adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”.


“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” 
1.
 Hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth, and mercy mild.
God an sinners reconciled!
Joyful all ye nations rise.
Join the triumph of the skies;
With th’angelic host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”
Hark! the herald angels sing.
Glory to the newborn King.
2.
 Hail, the heav’n born Prince of Peace!
Hail the sun of righteousness!
Light on life to all He brings,
Ris’n with healing in his wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die.
Born to raise the Sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing.
Glory to the newborn King.
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The Happy Farmer

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A four note ascending subdominant arpeggio, minor seventh,
and an extended rage will challenge your best readers!

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: Germany – Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
  • Key: F Major 
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: AA-codetta (concluding a section of a work instead of the work as a whole)
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ti ta/ ti | syncopation
    | ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti |
    | ta ta ta (ti) ti | ti ti ti ti ta (ti) ti |
  • Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do – extended range
  • Intervals: advanced: So/Do/Mi/So8 ascending tonic arpeggio (I, F), So8\Do (P5), Do/Fa/La8/Do8 ascending subdominant (IV, Bb), Do8\La (m3), So8\Mi (m3), Re\Fa (m3), Re\So8 (P5), So/Fa (m7), Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio (I, F), So/Mi (M6), Mi\Ti (P4), Re\Ti (M3)
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, repeat sign, multiple endings, tonic and subdominant arpeggios, codetta, expression: Giojoso/Merry/Joyous 
  • Key Words: world geography: Germany; music history, composers: Robert Schumann, art song, Romantic Era, plains, matchless, gilded, rival, gaily, evening, hath, pleasure, beauteous, golden, sweetly singing, early morn, task, through, swiftly, fleeting, sweet songs, merry dance, joyfulness, entrance, mantle, bids, light-some; abbreviations: flow’ry (flowery), bow’rs (bowers), cheer’ly (cheerily), ‘neath (beneath) possessive: night’s
  • Recorder: advanced: introducing B flat, tonic and subdominant arpeggios, extended range


“The Happy Farmer” 
1.
 Oh, what can with our flow’ry plains compare,
In all their matchless beauty that’s so bright and fair?
What gilded halls can rival nature’s bow’rs,
‘Neath which we gaily pass away the evening hours,
When work well done hath pleasure fairly won?
2.
 The bright green fields, the beauteous golden corn,
The birds so sweetly singing in the early morn,
Make bright our task and cheer’ly through the day,
Do pass on swiftly fleeting wings the hours away,
Till close of day brings pleasure into play!
3. We sing sweet songs and join the merry dance,
And joyfulness and pleasure so each heart entrance,
Till night’s dark mantle closing over day,
Bids each with light-some heart away to rest, away!
From “Album for the Young” (Album für die Jugend), Op. 68, composed by Robert Schumann in 1848 for his three daughters.
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Green Grow The Lilacs

"Green Grow The Lilacs," Lyrics, Text Format

Beginners syncopation, extended range,
and a five note ascending tonic arpeggio.

 

Description

  • Grade: Fifth
  • Origin: United Kingdom, Scotland – USA, Folk Song
  • Key: G Major 
  • Time: 3/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta/ ti | syncopation,
    | ta ta ta | ta/a ta | ta ta ti ti | ta/a (ta) |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Mi So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La – extended range
  • Intervals: intermediate: So/Mi8 (M6), Do\Mi (m6), Mi/So/Do/Mi8/So8 ascending tonic arpeggio (I, G), So8\Mi8 (m3), Do\La (m3), La/Fa (m6), Re\La (P4)
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; syncopation, tonic arpeggio 
  • Key Words: world geography: United Kingdom, Scotland (tune); USA history, cowboy song, cowboy courting song, lilacs, sparkling, dew, darling, parting, prove true, red, white, and blue, reminding, brought, love, gate, country, favorite, sweetly, perfuming, sad parting, message, change; contraction: I’m (I am), I’ll (I will); abbreviation: flow’r (flower)


“Green Grow The Lilacs” 
1.
 Green grow the lilacs, all sparkling with dew,
I’m lonely, my darling, since parting with you,
But by our next meeting I’ll hope to prove true,
And change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue.
2.
 Green grow the lilacs reminding me of
The ones that I brought you with all of my love,
The gates of my country will open for you
And change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue.
3. Green grow the lilacs, Your favorite flow’r,
So sweetly perfuming – a sad parting hour.
Oh send me a message that you love me too,
Let’s change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue.
This ballad is based on a similar song, “Green Grows the Laurel“, that was popular in 17th century Scotland. The song appears in the 1931 play of the same name by Lynn Riggs. “Green Grow the Lilacs” became the basis of the libretto for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!.”
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Go Tell It on the Mountain – NEW

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Adding the fourth (Fa) to the pentatonic scale with an interval of a minor seventh (m7).

 

Description

• Grade: Fifth (5)

• Origin: United States – African American Spiritual

• Key: F Major

• Time: 4/4

• Form: AB – Verse/Refrain

• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta | ta/a (ta) ta | ta/a ta/a | ta/a ti/ ri ti/ ri | ti ta ti ta ta | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta/a | ta ta ti ti ta | ta/a/a (ta) |

• Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi Fa So La

• Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So8 (m3), So\Mi\Do descending tonic triad, So/Fa (m7), Do\La (m3), So/Do P4)

• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter; descending tonic triad, interval of a minor seventh So/Fa, syncopation, vocal slurs

• Key Words: United Sates history, African American history, spiritual, Bible story, Christmas, sacred, mountain, King David, Lord, Jesus Christ, seeker, night and day, watchman, Him (God)


“Go Tell It on the Mountain” 
1.
 In the time of David,
Some said he was a king,
And if a child is true born,
The Lord will hear him sing;
Refrain:
Go tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere,
Go tell it on the mountain,
That Jesus Christ is born.
Refrain
2. When I was a seeker,
I sought both night and day,
I asked the Lord to help me,
And he showed me the way:
Refrain
4. He made me a watchman
Upon a city wall,
And if I serve Him truly,
I am the least of all:
Refrain
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