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		quadrangle on Jan 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty super picky, but your words either require an awkard mellisma on "fad" or the wrong accent: interNET because of the substitute of SAILor for NETfad. Sometimes there's no easy solution to such puzzles. Best I got (which is not great) is: what do we do with a trendy fad post?

reactordev on Jan 18, 2021 [–]

I definitely took liberties with extending fad to be two syllables covering the last two notes. It’s tricky and quickly becomes an ear worm.

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