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The Golden Girls · Season 5, Episode 16

Rose, Blanche and others in “Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom”

A lullaby my mother used to sing to me when I was a little girl. So when I'm scared or alone, I sing it, and it gives me courage.

No song is going to help me.

[singing] Over there, over there, send the word, send the word over there, that the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are com...

THAT is the lullaby that your mother sang to you?

Well, it was the only song she knew. During World War I, she gave out donuts and coffee to the doughboys before they boarded the trains for Europe. It works, truly! She said no one can be scared when they hear that song...except maybe the Kaiser.

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