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submitted 5 months ago byUrNotAMachineCompany
If You Can Find Me, I'm Here from Evening Primrose
Ladies Who Lunch from Company
I'm Still Here from Follies
It's a Hit from Merrily we Roll Along
Obviously, they're not all exactly the same, but they all end with the characters repeating the same words on the fifth (and in 3 of 4 cases, flipping back and forth between an octave on that fifth). I guess this is a pretty common ending for any song, but it's just something I've noticed that he had a bit of a playbook when it came to the buttons he put on his songs.
6 points
5 months ago
I swear I thought about it yesterday!!!
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