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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama.

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Mother Worries. BY SHANE ALLISON - - - -  Lord, how we gon' pay these bills in this  How we gon' pay these bills,   Lord. How we gon' pay these bills in  We gon' pay these  We gon' pay  Lord, how we gon' pay these bills in this house?   How, Lord, are we gon' pay these bills in this house  Lord, how, Lord, how we gon' pay these bills in this  Lord, how, Lord, we gon' pay  Lord, how are we gon' pay these bills   These bills, Lord, how we gon' pay these  How we goin' to pay these bills, Lord, in  In this house, Lord? How is it that we gon' pay these bills in,   In this house, Lord. How, Lord, we goin' to pay the bills in this house  These bills, these bills in this house, Lord, these  Bills in this house, how are we goin' to afford to pay the bills in this  House of all houses? With the bills the way, these bills  Are, how are we goin' to pay?   How, Lord? How is it that we are goin' to pay  The bills in this house the way they are in  This house, this house with the bills  In this house of houses in the house  With the bills we don't know how we're goin' to pay in this   House with the bills the way these  Bills are in this house, with these  Bills we don't know how we gon' pay  In this, our house of houses with this and this  Bill, Lord, we have to pay in   This house, the house with all the bills that need to be paid in the house.   Lord, how? How, Lord, is we to pay these bills?   How are we gon' do it? How is it that we are to pay these bills   These bills, which are stacking up high as a house with these  Bills we don't know, Lord, how we goin' to pay the bills that are due on the house  That needs to be paid  In the house, this house in   Which the bills are big in this   House with these bills that we  Don't know how in this world  We don't know how we goin' to pay    MORE SESTINAS

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