• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  Abbey Lincoln
  American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress
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1. remember
2. brothers
3. overseas
4. during
5. second
6. world

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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. by : Abbey Lincoln

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