“Step right up young lady
Your two hundred birthdays make you old if not senile
And we see the symptoms there in your rigor mortis smile
With your old folks eating dog food and your children eating paint
While the pirates own the flag and sell us sermons on restraint.”

—  Harry Chapin

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

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