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Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

Harry Chapin

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Harry Chapin
Age: 38 †
Born: 1942
Born: December 7
Died: 1981
Died: July 16
Banjoist
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Harold Forster Chapin
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Sing
Never
Guitar
Youth
Strum
Write
Inexperience
Feelings
Handicap
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Kids
Thirsty
Writing
Cursed

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