“Strum your guitar sing it kid
Just write about your feelings
not the things you never did
Inexperience, it once had cursed me
But your youth is no handicap
it's what makes you thirsty”

There Only Was One Choice
Song lyrics, Dance Band on the Titanic (1977)

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American musician 1942–1981

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