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 Saturday, December 23, 2006
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Garrison Keillor, Walter Bobbie, Tim Russell:
We three kings of Orient are
Tried to Smoke a rubber cigar
It was loaded and it exploded (BOOM)

GK, WB:
We two kings of Orient are
Tried to Smoke a rubber cigar
It was loaded and it exploded (BOOM)

WB:
I a king of Orient is
Lit that cigar and heard it fizz
It was loaded and it exploded (BOOM)

GK, WB, TR:
Former kings of Orient are we
Smoking ended our monarchy
We were royal and now we're tin foil
From smoking a bad cigar

Oh, cigar of wonder, cigar of day
Cigar that blew us all away
We were wise and now we're guys
With burn marks on our old toupees. (BOOM)


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