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Artist: Salad
Canonical path: /salad/a-man-with-a-box
Related lyric paths: 6
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A Man With a Box
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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A Man With a Box
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In the 1920s a man with a box came to stay
In the 1930s the man with a box went away
In the 1940s a man with a box went beserk
In the 1950s the man with a box left for work
A man with a box could be loving and he knows it
But a man with a box don't work that way
A man with a box could be loving if he tried it
But his rainclouds are permanently grey
In the 1960s a man with a box opened up
In the 1970s the man with a box drained his cup
In the 1980s a man with a box came along
And in the 1990s a man with a box wrote this song
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A man with a box made a train escape from euston
While his butterflies went wild in the woods
The police report stated that every year at margate
The daisies grew a different shade of brown
Man...
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