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1 Happy Birthday   We need no broom! !Ô Ô! We need a darkroom! Today is a birthday Not so ordinary a birthday As it is a rarity of its kind A day to everyman’s mind One celebrating The birthing Of a nation A nation With filth Filled And for this occasion Would in a procession All march down The store with or without gown And buy a broom And sweep away our nation’s bloom! Being a wizard neither, Nor a street sweeper But one, like all, kept away from uphill By their broom and briar downhill Would all with zeal desire And sweep into the mire These legends our nation’s Birthing engendered: passions! Passionate world champion, Champion of Corruption! ...

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