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The first line of the song recalls that, “they all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round;” and successive lines and verses allude to various other persons known for their role in world-changing creations, discoveries, and inventions – Edison for recording sound; Hershey for his chocolate bar, etc.
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DeBose, C. (2005). Linguists as Visionaries. In: The Sociology of African American Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502086_2
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