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There are about a thousand things / I'm not allowed to do; / Most everything I'm fondest of / I'm told is wrong -- are you?
They say, "Please don't do that, my child!"
They say, "You mustn't, dear!"
I hope sometime I'll learn what's right, / For now it seems so queer!