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  • It was just a song without words — the final phrases being three guttural gasps, diluendo, which Mickie says represent the wail of the “debil-debil” as he retires into the obscurity of spirit-land.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • It was just a song without words -- the final phrases being three guttural gasps, diluendo, which Mickie says represent the wail of the "debil-debil" as he retires into the obscurity of spirit-land.

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

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