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    "text": "Of course, I don’t know very much",
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    "text": "About these politics,",
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    "text": "But I think that some who run ’em,",
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    "text": "I’ve seen ’em honey-fugle round,",
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    "text": "That you’d think them full of kindness,",
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    "text": "Now I don’t believe in looking",
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    "text": "Honest people in the face,",
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    "text": "And saying when you’re doing wrong,",
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    "text": "That “I haven’t sold my race.”",
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    "text": "When we want to school our children,",
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    "text": "If the money isn’t there,",
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    "text": "Whether black or white have took it,",
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    "text": "The loss we all must share.",
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    "text": "And this buying up each other",
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    "text": "Though I thinks a heap of voting,",
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