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Alternative versions of the song use "never ends", and use the plural "friends". Other minor discrepancies in the lyrics may be due to the song being passed in the oral tradition from kid-to-kid. Such differences include "It just goes on and on..." (line 2), "And we’ll continue" (line 4), " and they
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continued" (line 4), “this is the song that killed my friends” (line 2), and "and they'll keep on" (line 4). A method that is sometimes used to end the song is to repeat "doesn't end doesn't end doesn't end" (line 1) as if the singer is a
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