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Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1966

ROCK 'N' ROLL songs, according to a joke now about ten years old, have three types of lyrics: a) I love my baby, b) my baby left me, c) I still love my baby. Even ten years ago, this was far from true; but today, rock 'n' roll lyrics have grown so diversified and, often, so interesting, that the Joke ceases even to be funny.

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