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Jago and Uma: We Didn'T Start the Family

jago christos uma rose
ethan cuevas corone
kelly elizabeth christos
alexia daniel wade jonathan james
emily-rose pau and willow too 

we didn't start the family
it was always growing
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the family
no we didn't fight it
but we did light it

juan estanislao alicia
george atha jennifer ann
diego agustin angel carlos
maria del transito cuevas gallego
eve corone bosch jim louis nick christos
lynette shirley helen lorraine 
smither tracey linda middleton 
marisa jane owen wastle haylock

we didn't start the family
it was always growing
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the family
no we didn't fight it
but we did light it

francisca bosch ferrer
josep corone company
maria del transito gallego llorente
vicente cuevas garcia
kalopa christou stefandis
triain szosza todol christou
shirley rose brian fredrick haylock
vanne lena milanko etcetera

we didn't start the family
it was always growing
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the family
No we didn't fight it
But we did light it

[to be read like billy joel's "we didn't start the fire"]

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