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Candle Quote by Don McLean

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“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.”

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I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

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The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces…

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I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

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I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

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On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

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