We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
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Then it's merrily, merrily, merrily, whoa To the old gray church they come and go, Some to be married and some to be buried And Old Robin has gone for the mail
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