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"text": "Where ever I go, both to and fro\nYou have my heart alright."
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"ref": "1662 : Cantus, songs and fancies, to three, four, or five parts, both apt for voices and viols : with a brief introduction to musick, as is taught by Thomas Davidson, in the Musick-School of Aberdene by Thomas Davidson, iii. sig. B/1",
"text": "Where ever I go, both to and fro\nYou have my heart alright."
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"ref": "1932, Langston Hughes, Goodbye, Christ",
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