A trip on the ocean will bring out all the good that’s in you.

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In the army it was: “Gimme,” “Let me take,” and “Have you?”

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When your comprenez vous rope is cut,

When you’ve bats in your belfry that flut,

When there’s nobody home

In the top of your dome,

Then your head ain’t a head—it’s a nut.

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