“I'm gonna give all I've got to give
Cross my heart, and I hope to live.”

—  Phil Ochs

"Cross My Heart" http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/cross-my-heart.html
Pleasures of the Harbor (1967)

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American protest singer and songwriter 1940–1976

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