| Hey Steve
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| Hey Ed. |
| That sounds nice, what is it?
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| Thank you, it’s a, it’s an alphabet song I’m working on
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| Oh great, a whole new alphabet, I just learned the old one
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| «A» is for aisle, «B» is for bdellium, «C» is for czar
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| And if you see him would you mind telling him?
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| Okay, hang on a second, yeah aisle, bdellium?
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| Yeah, aisle like a, like a theater
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| Alright, okay and bdellium?
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| Bdellium, it’s a gum like tree resin, it starts with a silent B
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| And then czar?
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| Yeah, it’s uh like a Russian czar
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| You know everybody knows apple, ball and cat
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| I wanted to get into some, you know some stranger words
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| Right, I see what you’re doing
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| «D» is for djinn, «E» for Euphrates
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| «F» is for fohn, but not like when I call the ladies
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| I thought phone started with a «P» like a «Ph»
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| No, it’s F-O-H-N, it’s a, it’s a kind of wind
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| Yeah, I know what you mean by wind
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| «G» for gnarly, «I» for irk, «H» is for hour
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| «J» for jalapeño, good in either corn or flour
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| …tortillas
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| Nice rhyme
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| «K» is for knick knack, «L» is for llama
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| Pramma, llama, ding, what’s so strange about llama?
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| Llama, it starts with two «L"'s
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| What’s the second one for?
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| No idea
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| I know. |
| Loser
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| «M» for mnemonic, «N» is for ndomo, «O» is for Ouija board
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| «P» for pneumonia, pterodactyl and psychosis, «Q» is for qat
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| Okay, «Q» … qat? |
| What?
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| Yeah, it’s uh Q-A-T, it’s an evergreen shrub
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| It’s a perfect scrabble word because it’s a «Q» with no «U»
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| There’s not many of those
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| You have too much time on your hands
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| «R» is for argyle
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| No it isn’t
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| Okay, you’re right, I couldn’t find a good «R» word
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| «S» is for Saar, a lovely German river
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| «T» for tsunami, a wave that makes me quiver
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| «U» is for urn, but not like earning money
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| «V» for vraisemblance from French and therefore kind of funny
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| «W» for wren, wrinkly and who
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| «X» is for Xian, an ancient Chinese city, true
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| Ancient Chinese city, huh? |
| My guitar player, some hotshot
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| «Y» is for yiperite, a very nasty gas
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| And Zed’s the final letter and by final I mean last
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| Okay, when you say Zed for the benefit of our American friends
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| You really mean «Zee», right?
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| No, I mean Zed, like, like Zed Zed Top
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| Zed Zed Top?
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| Yeah, you know the guys with the big long beards
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| Well, except the guy, uh, whose name is Beard, he has a mustache
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| I always thought that was interesting
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| You done with the alphabet?
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| No, extra letters I haven’t heard of?
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| I think so
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| This was a great help, I think
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| With the contribution you made to world literacy
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| Well, I’m just saying, kids I’m just saying
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| Think outside the box a little bit
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| Yeah, that’s box with an «R»
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| Yeah, well, no balks with a B-A-L-K-S like a pitcher
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| Ah, as opposed to B-A-C-H-S
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| Right, think outside the Bachs, get into some Rochmaninov
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| That’s Rochmaninov with a «W» |