Let's say you are at the airport, and the little boy on the seat next to you is humming a short commercial song.

假设你在机场，你旁边座位上的小男孩正在哼唱一首简短的广告歌曲。

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His recording of "Ben," the title song from a movie about a boy and his homicidal pet rat, was a No. 1 hit in 1972.

他为电影配唱的同名歌曲“Ben”在1972年名列排行榜第一。电影《Ben》讲述了一个男孩和宠物吃人鼠的故事。

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Katie's song tells the story of a small boy who nurtures a flower from the earthquake's debris.

凯蒂的歌讲述了一个小男孩在地震废墟中种了一朵花的故事。

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"We thought it sounded like a boy band song, " he says.

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And so it's just basically--"Eli The Barrow Boy, " the song, is just kind of a--it's just a tragedy of a very sort of sweet character, who just never really gets a break in life, I guess.

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The blues riff you hear is an interpretation of Muddy Waters' song, Mannish Boy, and is performed by Nas' father.

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