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Jun 08, 2025
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Folk Song #1

I am sick
I am sick and sad
I am sick and sad and angry
I am sick and sad and angry and mumbling again
Mumbling

If I had me twenty dollars
I’d buy me
A penny
And throw it into the air
Watch the fake copper gleam and glint  in the tumbling sun
Of a September day

If I had a hundred dollars
I’d rent me
Some bubble gum
And pop it in my dry old mouth
Suck out all the sweet and chew out all the chew
Of a September day 

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