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 If you can't eat you got to
 smoke and we aint got
 nothing to smoke:come on kid

© let's go to sleep
 if you can't smoke you got to
 Sing and we aint got

 nothing to sing;come on kid
 let's go to sleep
 if you can't sing you got to
 die and we aint got
. Nothing to die,come on kid
 let's go to sleep
 if you can't die you got to
 dream and we aint got
 nothing to dream (come on kid
 Let's go to sleep)

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