This is a song I wrote about a guy who never should have cheated on me.

这首歌是写一个不该欺骗我的男孩。

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I wrote this son, my father and I wrote this song, for the acid victims of Kandahar City -- a few young girls who were trying to make their way home from school when they got attacked by acid.

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She wasn't somebody who could stand up and, say, like a Paul Robeson, make a whole sort of statement, but she could sing this song, and apparently, according to letters from--that I read of William Dufty, the ghostwriting journalist who wrote "The Lady Sings the Blues, " the FBI and other peoples actually said if she stopped singing this song they would give her an easier ride.

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