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I'm not an original composer. the tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that i grew up with.
-Tom Lehrer
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I'm Not An Original Composer. The Tunes

Tom Lehrer
I'm not an original composer. the tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that i grew up with.
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