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I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

James Taylor

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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