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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

Alan Jackson

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Alan Jackson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 17
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Country Singer
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Alan Eugene Jackson
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