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"When it's _got_ to be," -- like! always say, / As I notice the years whiz past, / And know each day is a yesterday, / When we size it up, at last, -- / Same as I said when my _boyhood_ went / And I knowed _we_ had to quit, -- / "It's _got_ to be, and it's _goin'_ to be! " -- / So I said "Good-by" to _it_.

It's _got_ to be, and it's _goin'_ to be!

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