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Andorra
[1990:] Some years ago we discovered that in Monaco the state orchestra is bigger than the state army. Then we discovered there is a place in Europe even better than that, twenty years before perestroika. In Andorra, the whole state army fit into a telephone kiosk. They haven't really got any, they just put on their uniforms once a year.
(Intro Hamish Imlach)
[1993:] You can make up a song out of many an item in the newspaper. The journalist has already done half your job for you. [...] Malvina Reynolds was similarly helped to write Andorra. It was a three-inch item in the New York Times. Years later I met the newspaper reporter in Andorra. He knew just what he was doing. [...] There's two verses I added [nos. 3 and 4 above; he leaves out Reynolds' no. 3
On the fourth day of July - their independence day, not ours, of course. (Seeger, Flowers 111f)
[2006:] Notes: words by Malvina Reynolds, music by Pete Seeger; copyright 1962 Brio Music, renewed 1990. a.k.a. "I Want to Go to Andorra!" Pete Seeger's recording of this song was issued on a CD in 2003 by the Andorran government. Also on the CD is a 1996 speech by the Andorran Foreign Minister given on the occasion of his signing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty at the U. S. State Department in Washington, D.C. (Malvina Reynolds website)
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