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Mostly Bob Marley, since that's about all I can play on the uke - it's tougher than guitar - but they taught me a Wollof proverb Ndanka ndanka mooy japa golo ci nyaay bi...slowly slowly catches the monkey in the bush that I put to music.
In case you're interested... Adam Horowitz 2007
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Put money in front of a Chinese, even if he's starving, and he'll gamble for it; they turned out the purse, yelping, and fell to choi-mooy, the linger game, in which you whip your hand from behind your hack, holding up one or more fingers, and the others have to guess how many, double quick.
Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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Put money in front of a Chinese, even if he's starving, and he'll gamble for it; they turned out the purse, yelping, and fell to choi-mooy, the linger game, in which you whip your hand from behind your hack, holding up one or more fingers, and the others have to guess how many, double quick.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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Put money in front of a Chinese, even if he's starving, and he'll gamble for it; they turned out the purse, yelping, and fell to choi-mooy, the linger game, in which you whip your hand from behind your hack, holding up one or more fingers, and the others have to guess how many, double quick.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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