“Ah, ah,
Beautiful is the mother.
Ah, ah,
Beautiful is her son.”

"Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle"
Lyrics, The Age of Adz (2010)

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American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1975

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