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Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes
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Malvina Reynolds - Back Alley Surgery
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Malvina Reynolds - Mommy's Girl
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Malvina Reynolds - The Faucets Are Dripping
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Malvina Reynolds - A Short History of Warfare
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Malvina Reynolds - Everybody Says
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Malvina Reynolds - Little Bitty Mommy
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Malvina Reynolds - The Battle of Maxton Field
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Malvina Reynolds - The Little Red Hen
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Malvina Reynolds - A Soft Answer
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Malvina Reynolds - A Trundle, A Bundle
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Malvina Reynolds - A White and Orange Aeroplane
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Malvina Reynolds - Alcatraz (Pelican Island)
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Malvina Reynolds - All Over Everything
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Malvina Reynolds - Alone
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Malvina Reynolds - Andorra
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Malvina Reynolds - Antique Collector
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Malvina Reynolds - Are You Walking There for Me?
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Malvina Reynolds - Artichokes
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Malvina Reynolds - Babies
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Malvina Reynolds - Back to the Dream
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Malvina Reynolds - Backyard Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Ballad of Ella Mae
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Malvina Reynolds - Beetle Bottle Bush
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Malvina Reynolds - Billy Boy
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Malvina Reynolds - Billy Bump Bump
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Malvina Reynolds - Birthday Hallelu
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Malvina Reynolds - Bitter Rain
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Malvina Reynolds - Black Hawk Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Black Horse
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Malvina Reynolds - Blood on the Grapes
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Malvina Reynolds - Blues Street
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Malvina Reynolds - Boraxo
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Malvina Reynolds - Born in the Town
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Malvina Reynolds - Boys Will Be Boys
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Malvina Reynolds - Bring Flowers
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Malvina Reynolds - Bury Me in My Overalls
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Malvina Reynolds - Busting at the Seams
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Malvina Reynolds - Buying the Package
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Malvina Reynolds - Call on Me
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Malvina Reynolds - Can't Wait to Go
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Malvina Reynolds - Caroline Cotton Mill Song
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Malvina Reynolds - Change It
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Malvina Reynolds - Check-Up
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Malvina Reynolds - Christ Died
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Malvina Reynolds - Clean Water
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Malvina Reynolds - Come Clean Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Come Out
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Malvina Reynolds - Computers
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Malvina Reynolds - Count Ten
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Malvina Reynolds - D. D. T. on My Brain
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Malvina Reynolds - Daddy's in the Jail
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Malvina Reynolds - Dancing Girl
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Malvina Reynolds - Dead Hand at the Tiller
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Malvina Reynolds - Dialectic
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Malvina Reynolds - Did You Know?
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Malvina Reynolds - Do As the Doukhobors Do
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Malvina Reynolds - Do Something Wrong
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Believe the Night Time
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Bother Me
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Drop the Box
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Go Away
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't I Let You Live Here?
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Let Him In
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Push Me
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Sell Texas Short
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Shoot the Captain
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Smoke, Darling
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Malvina Reynolds - Don't Talk to Me of Love
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Malvina Reynolds - Down to Hanson's
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Malvina Reynolds - Drive on the Cart
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Malvina Reynolds - Early in the Morning
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Malvina Reynolds - Earth Child
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Malvina Reynolds - Eight Candles
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Malvina Reynolds - El Cortito
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Malvina Reynolds - Everybody Smiles at Me
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Malvina Reynolds - Everybody Talks About Mine Mill
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Malvina Reynolds - Everything Soup
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Malvina Reynolds - Fantastic Man
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Malvina Reynolds - Field Workers Song
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Malvina Reynolds - Fortunatus' Wallet
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Malvina Reynolds - Free Enterprise
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Malvina Reynolds - From Way Up Here
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Malvina Reynolds - Funny Bug Basin
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Malvina Reynolds - Galaxy
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Malvina Reynolds - God Bless the Grass
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Malvina Reynolds - Goodbye to the Band
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Malvina Reynolds - Green Shadows
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Malvina Reynolds - Griddle Cakes
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Malvina Reynolds - Ground Swell
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Malvina Reynolds - Guerrillas in Guatemala
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Malvina Reynolds - Gupery Joe and Mike
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Malvina Reynolds - Heavy on Me
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Malvina Reynolds - Hello Ladybug
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Malvina Reynolds - Henry Ford's Engine
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Malvina Reynolds - Here's To a World That's All Right
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Malvina Reynolds - Hip Hop Candytop
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Malvina Reynolds - Housewife's Grief
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Malvina Reynolds - Huelga Huelga (Do Not Cross the Line)
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Malvina Reynolds - I Believe
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Malvina Reynolds - I Don't Care About You
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Malvina Reynolds - I Don't Have Anything
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Malvina Reynolds - I Don't Mind Failing
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Malvina Reynolds - I Don't Think So
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Malvina Reynolds - I Don't Understand
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Malvina Reynolds - I Know When I've Done Wrong
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Malvina Reynolds - I Live in a City
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Malvina Reynolds - I Lived Through This Day
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Malvina Reynolds - I See You
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Malvina Reynolds - I Went A-Gathering
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Malvina Reynolds - I Wish You Were Here
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Malvina Reynolds - I'm Apathetic
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Malvina Reynolds - I'm Doing Fine
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Malvina Reynolds - I'm Sorry It's Done
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Malvina Reynolds - I'm Too Dumb
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Malvina Reynolds - I've Got a Song
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Malvina Reynolds - If Peace Time Came
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Malvina Reynolds - If Two Have Four
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Malvina Reynolds - If You Love Me
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Malvina Reynolds - If You Want a Friend
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Malvina Reynolds - If You Were Little
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Malvina Reynolds - In Bethlehem
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Malvina Reynolds - Instant Sentence, or, Talking Law and Order Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - It Isn't Nice
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Malvina Reynolds - It Turned Out to Be a Song
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Malvina Reynolds - It's Enough to Be Young
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Malvina Reynolds - It's My Turn
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Malvina Reynolds - It's Raining!
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Malvina Reynolds - It's Up to You
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Malvina Reynolds - Jail House Buddy
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Malvina Reynolds - Jailhouse Door
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Malvina Reynolds - January Sale
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Malvina Reynolds - Jeannie
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Malvina Reynolds - Jennie Fell Down
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Malvina Reynolds - Jenny Appleseed
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Malvina Reynolds - Jesus Was a Saviour, Too
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Malvina Reynolds - Johnny Built a House
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Malvina Reynolds - Just a Little Every Day
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Malvina Reynolds - Kennebunkport
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Malvina Reynolds - Kiss Her Good-bye
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Malvina Reynolds - Leave My Van Allen Belt Alone
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Malvina Reynolds - Let It Be
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Malvina Reynolds - Let Them Eat Cake
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Malvina Reynolds - Let Us Come In (Party Crasher's Carol)
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Malvina Reynolds - Let's Have a Picnic
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Malvina Reynolds - Like the Miller Grinds the Wheat
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Malvina Reynolds - Little Birds
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Malvina Reynolds - Little Boat
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Malvina Reynolds - Little Kids
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Malvina Reynolds - Lock the Windows
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Malvina Reynolds - Log of the Echo III
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Malvina Reynolds - Look on the Sunny Side
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Malvina Reynolds - Lost Children Street
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Malvina Reynolds - Lost in the Crowd
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Malvina Reynolds - Love Somebody
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Malvina Reynolds - Madwoman
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Malvina Reynolds - Magic Penny
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Malvina Reynolds - Magical Food
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Malvina Reynolds - Magical Song
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Malvina Reynolds - Mail Call
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Malvina Reynolds - Mailman Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Malvina's Blues, or, It Ain't a Folk Song
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Malvina Reynolds - Mama's Gone
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Malvina Reynolds - Many Colors
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Malvina Reynolds - Mario's Duck
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Malvina Reynolds - Masquerade (Gray Power Song)
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Malvina Reynolds - May Flies Dance
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Malvina Reynolds - Meet Me at the Watergate
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Malvina Reynolds - Money Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Moogical Love
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Malvina Reynolds - Morningtown Ride
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Malvina Reynolds - Move Over
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Malvina Reynolds - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
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Malvina Reynolds - My Little Guitar
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Malvina Reynolds - My Street
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Malvina Reynolds - Nancy Newman of Liberty Hall
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Malvina Reynolds - Napalm
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Malvina Reynolds - Nestlé No!
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Malvina Reynolds - Never Argue with a Bee
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Malvina Reynolds - Never Touch a Singing Bird
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Malvina Reynolds - No Closing Chord
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Malvina Reynolds - No Hole in My Head
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Malvina Reynolds - No House
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Malvina Reynolds - No Place to Run
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Malvina Reynolds - No Room
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Malvina Reynolds - Nobody
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Malvina Reynolds - Not the Shadow of a Man
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Malvina Reynolds - Nothing to Say
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Malvina Reynolds - Nowhere Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Oh, Doctor
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Malvina Reynolds - On My Own Feet
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Malvina Reynolds - On the Coat Tails of the Lord
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Malvina Reynolds - On the Rim of the World
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Malvina Reynolds - One More Ride
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Malvina Reynolds - One of the Family
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Malvina Reynolds - One Shoe
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Malvina Reynolds - Only a War
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Malvina Reynolds - Only Room for Two
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Malvina Reynolds - Osaka Train
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Malvina Reynolds - Outrageous
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Malvina Reynolds - Over and Over
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Malvina Reynolds - Overtime
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Malvina Reynolds - Patchwork of Dreams
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Malvina Reynolds - Pea Soup Song of Billings, Montana
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Malvina Reynolds - Peace Isn't Treason
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Malvina Reynolds - People
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Malvina Reynolds - People Are Tired
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Malvina Reynolds - Picket Line
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Malvina Reynolds - Place to Be
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Malvina Reynolds - Playing War
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Malvina Reynolds - Poor Worms
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Malvina Reynolds - Power Plant Reggae
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Malvina Reynolds - Pretty Thing
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Malvina Reynolds - Puget Boat Song
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Malvina Reynolds - Put On Your Hat
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Malvina Reynolds - Quiet
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Malvina Reynolds - Rabbits Dance
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Malvina Reynolds - Rachel's Lullaby
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Malvina Reynolds - Rail Birds
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Malvina Reynolds - Rand Hymn
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Malvina Reynolds - Red Bird
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Malvina Reynolds - Rejoice
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Malvina Reynolds - Ring Like a Bell
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Malvina Reynolds - Road Song
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Malvina Reynolds - Rosie Jane
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Malvina Reynolds - Run, Run, the Tree Is Falling
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Malvina Reynolds - Sally Don't You Grieve
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Malvina Reynolds - Sausalito Fire
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Malvina Reynolds - Say Something Nice
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Malvina Reynolds - Says the Bee
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Malvina Reynolds - Seabeck
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Malvina Reynolds - Senate Bill One
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Malvina Reynolds - Seventy Miles
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Malvina Reynolds - Shaggy Baggy Man
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Malvina Reynolds - She Got Lost
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Malvina Reynolds - Shelter from the Rain
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Malvina Reynolds - Sick People in Chicago
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Malvina Reynolds - Sick World
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Malvina Reynolds - Signature Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Sing Along
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Malvina Reynolds - Singin Jesus
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Malvina Reynolds - Skagit Valley Forever
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Malvina Reynolds - Sleep, Come On By
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Malvina Reynolds - So Soon
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Malvina Reynolds - Something's After You
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Malvina Reynolds - Somewhere Between
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Malvina Reynolds - Song of the Nobodies
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Malvina Reynolds - Spooky World
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Malvina Reynolds - Star Flower
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Malvina Reynolds - Stone Stone
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Malvina Reynolds - Stranded on This Planet
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Malvina Reynolds - Street Corner Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - Sweet Stuff
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Malvina Reynolds - Swivel Chair Reserves
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Malvina Reynolds - Take It Away
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Malvina Reynolds - Take Me to Sandy Hook
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Malvina Reynolds - Take Two
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Malvina Reynolds - Temptation
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Malvina Reynolds - Ten Ton Blues
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Malvina Reynolds - That's Me
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Malvina Reynolds - The Alameda Mountains
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Malvina Reynolds - The Albatross
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Malvina Reynolds - The Bairnies Are Crying
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Malvina Reynolds - The Ballad of Robban's First Ride
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Malvina Reynolds - The Birch Society
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Malvina Reynolds - The Bloody Neat
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Malvina Reynolds - The Boy Salutes
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Malvina Reynolds - The Cement Octopus
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Malvina Reynolds - The Corners of Your Mind
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Malvina Reynolds - The Day the Freeway Froze
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Malvina Reynolds - The Delinquent
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Malvina Reynolds - The Desert
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Malvina Reynolds - The Devil Is Talking
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Malvina Reynolds - The Devil's Baptizin
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Malvina Reynolds - The Dresses
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Malvina Reynolds - The Emperor's Nightingale
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Malvina Reynolds - The Falling of the Tree
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Malvina Reynolds - The Fragile Sea
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Malvina Reynolds - The Gang Dancers
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Malvina Reynolds - The Genius
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Malvina Reynolds - The Girls from the Oyster House
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Malvina Reynolds - The Good Ship O'Connor
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Malvina Reynolds - The H. U. A. C.
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Malvina Reynolds - The Highway
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Malvina Reynolds - The Hills of Hey
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Malvina Reynolds - The Judge Said
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Malvina Reynolds - The Lambeth Children O
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Malvina Reynolds - The Last Time
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Malvina Reynolds - The Lazy Dog
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Malvina Reynolds - The Little Generals
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Malvina Reynolds - The Little Mermaid
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Malvina Reynolds - The Little Mouse
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Malvina Reynolds - The Man in the Mask
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Malvina Reynolds - The Man Says Jump
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Malvina Reynolds - The Moment
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Malvina Reynolds - The Money Crop
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Malvina Reynolds - The Montreal Vandals
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Malvina Reynolds - The New Restaurant
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Malvina Reynolds - The New York Song
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Malvina Reynolds - The Only Way
Log of the Echo III
Malvina Reynolds
The natives gave a cheer.
For we'd been standing at the dock
For over half a year.
But now she's got her bottom clean,
And looking mighty fine,
With half her railing laid away
And washing on the line.
Chorus:
What's the matter with Echo?
Not a single thing,
Her whistle gives a lovely toot,
Her bell will always ring.
She steps along at seven knots
To cheer a sailor's heart,
And we'll reach Louisa Inlet
If she doesn't fall apart.
O Captain Sherry's in command,
A seasoned salt is he,
He left the tarpot on the dock
And headed out to sea,
And Allan left the steering wheel
And scampered all around,
To tell his daddy down below,
"We nearly ran aground!"
We thundered out of Stanley Park
Before the morning came.
The cooks and crew were all asleep
But that was all the same.
The natives watched in reverent awe,
They all were stricken dumb,
The mosquitos and teretas shouted,
"Fellow, here they come!"
(Chorus)
We ambled into Buccaneer,
The engine coughed and died,
The Nor'west wind began to blow,
It was a running tide,
And Paul he tied the rowboat on
And pulled her from the land,
With seven captains on the bridge
And all were in command.
The Echo is a noble ship
As all Canadians know,
She used to be an oil barge
But that was years ago.
They built a handsome superdeck
To heighten all our joys,
With a galley and a main saloon,
And room for gulls and buoys.
(Chorus)
There was Diesel in the water
And the stores were getting thin,
The Shangri-La she volunteered
To take the steward in,
She brought us back the groceries,
And mighty glad were we
And Helen manned the motor boat
Without her lingerie.
O Marilyn's in the galley
A-mixing cookie dough,
And Harriet runs the dishpan
And Sherry's down below,
While Steve and Allan pole the raft
And Mal is cooking stew,
And Bud is in the wheelhouse
A-cussing out the crew.
(Chorus)
It was a lovely morning,
The sea was smooth as glass,
The seagulls circled round about
To see the Echo pass,
And everyone was at his post
While Allan baked a cake,
And Mal and Paula in the stern
Strewed garbage in the wake.
The compass was a little off,
The charts were out of date,
The Engineer he wasn't sure
If we made six or eight,
We had to get to Pender
Before the end of day,
So we hailed a passing salad boat
To point us out the way.
(Chorus)
Our boat she thumps and bumps along
As graceful as a bird,
She is the pride of Puget and
She's called the Echo Third.
We give three cheers for everything,
The echoes give reply,
And so she's called the Echo III
And that's the reason why.
We had a consultation
Aboard our little boat,
We needed milk for all the kids
And should we keep a goat?
We'd ring a bell to milk her,
Another bell to feed,
And she'd serve us for a foghorn
Whenever there was need.
(Chorus)
We tied our boat at Malibu North
To see its beauties rare.
The place was built for ritzy folk
But they are otherwhere,
We saw a northland Hollywood
So grand and so absurd,
And vowed that we had rather be
Aboard the Echo Third.
And when we reached the oyster beds
We quickly hied ashore,
And filled our buckets and our sacks
With more and more and more.
A noble food, we ate them stewed
We ate them cooked and live,
And I hope I never see another
Till 1955.
(Chorus)
We all went out a-fishing
But still we dined on meat
Cause all we caught were shiners
And they're not much to eat.
But Helen in the galley
Concocted noble fare
Of bully beef and powdered milk
And healthy mountain air.
The men all went a-fishing,
They paddled all about,
They set their bait for salmon,
They cast their lines for trout,
And Harriet in her solitude
Heard a terrific din;
"Marilyn's caught a 10 pound cod
On a bended pin!"
(Chorus)
We saw a pretty waterfall
A dimpling down the rock,
And Bud he took the motor boat
And tied it to the dock,
He took that little waterfall
And stowed it safe away
And took it out in far Lucerne1
To grow the Lucerne hay.
O Paula does the dog-paddle,
Paul he swims the mile,
Sherry swam the Hellespont
To win a lady's smile,
Mal she has the wherewithal
To keep her well afloat,
But the greatest swimmer of them all
Is Echo III the boat.
(Chorus)
Upon the point at Hamiltaire,
Where every vessel clears,
There stands an ancient totem
That's weathered with the years,
And when you near this landmark
From the leeward side,
You see that it is Uncle Bud
A-watching of the tide.
Oh have you seen the Echo?
She passed along this way.
She has a crew of water tramps,
Her color's black and gray.
She isn't quite a camp-boat,
She's surely not a yacht,
The seagulls wheel around her top
And whistle, "What is that?"
(Chorus)
O Bud he made a crab-trap
To pick us up a meal,
He made it out of chicken wire
And a rusty wheel,
The skipper of the Spindrift
Declared it had been made
By a scavenger by nature
And a carpenter by trade.
"O have you seen my waterfall?"
Said genial Mr. Mac,
"The Lord gave me the waterfall
And didn't take it back.
Oh some may boast a fine estate
And some may sport a crown,
But just give me a mountain
With a river falling down."
(Chorus)
We heard a plaintive melody,
Arising from below.
"What seems to be the trouble, Mal,
What makes you holler so!"
"With all the world of scenery
A-passing grandly by,
I'm down here in the galley-o
With onion in my eye."
O give a cheer for Canada
Where Echo has her berth,
Her scenery so wonderful
Her food of honest worth,
Her fair and gentle women
Her sturdy workingmen,
Whenever I think of Canada
I'll want to come again.
(Chorus)
What's the matter with Echo?
Not a single thing.
Her whistle gives a lovely toot,
Her bell will always ring,
We'll sail her round about the sound
Till all her stores are gone,
And she'll get back to Vancouver
With her rudder hanging on.