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shoc!ed b" the moving images that he decided to raise money for famine relief in that countr".
#ogether with his friend $idge %re, from the group Ultravox, wrote a song called Do they know its
Christmas? and phoned some of the greatest singers of that time to sing the song.
$ost of them agreed and the song was &er" popular. It was so popular that in 1989 was recorded again.
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called B*', *I, ().
#he C, &ersion sold ()),))) copies in the first wee!, and became the fastest2selling single of the "ear.
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Continent in the Southern part of
the Earth.
Opposite of dark.
Another word for Earth.
Water that comes from the sky is
called.
We get light from it during the
day
Another word for present.
You do this with your lips when
you are happy.
When you are sad many of these
can come out of your eyes.
Opposite of inside.
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banish let world smile need
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*nd the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom
water pray hard fun window say
/ell 44444444444444444 than! God it3s them instead of "ou
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