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CALLER: Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee,
COUNSELOR: What part?
CALLER: where the cotton blooms and blows.
COUNSELOR: Um…
CALLER: Why he left his home in the South to roam ’round the Pole,
COUNSELOR: So he was a dancer?
CALLER: God only knows.
COUNSELOR: But you just said–
CALLER: He was always cold,
COUNSELOR: Was there visible shrinkage?
CALLER: but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
COUNSELOR: So he made good tips?
CALLER: Though he’d often say in his homely way
COUNSELOR: Right. So was he a good dancer? If he was homely but still got good tips.
CALLER: that “he’d sooner live in hell.”
COUNSELOR: Exotic dancing isn’t for everyone. Sometimes people burn out quickly.
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