The band says it has delivered two million direct downloads of the track "It's 4:20 Somewhere, " which riffs on a familiar drinking song by invoking a time of day associated with smoking marijuana.

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You realize then why Mr McCabe keeps his Iago on such a tight rein, why, even at riotous moments during the drinking song, for example, a piece of regimental choreography which degenerates into homosexual horseplay his tunic stays buttoned to the neck.

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On a recent cruise evening in Manhattan harbour, the shoeless Ms Nelson clambered up on a bench and treated her staff to a lusty, albeit brief rendition of an old Swedish drinking song.

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