“I've got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle,
As I go riding merrily along.
And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single?"
And that song ain't so very far from wrong.”

— Frank Loesser

Song Jingle, Jangle, Jingle.

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American songwriter 1910–1969

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