Peter Paul and Mary

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Whole Summers Spent Listening to these Three*

Simple in instrumentation

Topics the ordinary stuff

Given a dais and magical tune

For Jet Plane and Right Field and Puff.

Surely the masters of Folk Song

Cultures sprang forward anew

Here’s what we value in our common lot

You can sit down and sing too.

Laugh if the funny bone tickles

Cry if you hit a sore spot

Human emotion in all its rich tones

Artists who share what they’ve got.


(* Peter, Paul and Mary)

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