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Question
“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”
Do you or anybody else at home know other such songs?
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Solution
My sister, aunty and mother know several such songs.
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