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# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
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# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
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# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
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#
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#, fuzzy
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msgid ""
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msgstr ""
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"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
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"POT-Creation-Date: 2009-08-19 00:13+0300\n"
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"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
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"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
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"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
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"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
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"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
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"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"At one point you may want to write and add your own songs to the chordbook. "
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"Let us explain how to do this in an easy way."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"The first thing to know is that we use latex, a powerfull text processing "
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"software that produce nice looking output allowing the writter to focus on "
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"the content rather than the format. This is a programming language based on "
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"command that act as a markup."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Command start with a backslash '\\' followed by the command name. Then comes "
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"arguments of the command, if any, either between braces or square brackets. "
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"Enough for the theory, let us present the mostly common used command to "
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"produce well formated songs."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Title ##
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#, no-wrap
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msgid "Main elements"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Every songs start with the following declaration where you have to replace "
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"the title and the author according to the song you are writting."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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#, no-wrap
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msgid " \\beginsong{Title}[by=Author]\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Then the song is composed of a succession of verses and chorus. A verse "
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"start with *\\beginverse* and finish with *\\endverse*. In a same way, a "
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"chorus start with *\\beginchorus* and finish with *\\endchorus*."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"The lyrics are typed normally between *\\begin* and *\\end*, but to add some "
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"chords information, you have to use a special command: for instance \\[Mi] "
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"produce a **Mi** chord above the lyrics where the command is inserted. You "
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"can use whatever text as chord definition (see examples for flat, sharp or "
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"other classical notations). The following verse obtained from the song "
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"*Where is my mind* by the Pixies shows the use of these commands."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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" \\beginverse\n"
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" With your \\[Mi]feet in the air and your \\[Do#m]head on the ground \\[La&m] \\[La]\n"
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" \\[Mi] Try this trick\\[Do#m] and s\\[La&m]pin it Ye\\[La]ah,\n"
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" \\[Mi] Your head will coll\\[Do#m]apse but there's \\[La&m]nothing in it And you'll \\[La]ask yourself\n"
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" \\endverse\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Some character have to be typed differently using latex command to produce a "
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"perfect results. The two main examples used in the current songbook are the "
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"three dots (...) and the oe character. To represent such character you have "
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"to respectively used the *{\\dots}* command and the *{\\oe}* command. We use "
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"braces arround the command so the command can be inserted wherever you want. "
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"Some songs use other notation for the same characters, please report any "
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"problem you may find in the current source files."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Every songs end with the following declaration so you sould add it at the "
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"end of your file."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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#, no-wrap
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msgid " \\endsong\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Title ##
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msgid "Chord notation"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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"Flat is represented using the *'&'* character: this produce a *'b'* shaped "
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"character which is the classical notation for the flat. Sharp is coded using "
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"*'#'*. Other notations are simply added as character to the main chord. For "
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"instance a *La flat minor* is noted *La&m*."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Title ##
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#, no-wrap
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msgid "Optionnal elements"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Before the *\\beginsong* command, you could specify the number of column you "
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"want your song to be divided into. You might have between one and three "
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"column by using the following command with the appropriate number of column."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid " \\songcolumns{1}\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Another great tool is the guitar tab presenting each chord played in the "
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"song. This is done using the *\\gtab* command between the *\\beginsong* and "
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"the first verse (*\\beginverse*) or chorus (*\\beginchorus*) whichever comes "
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"first. I wil not detailled how the *\\gtab* command works here but I will "
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"just gives some examples with common chords."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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" \\gtab{Ré}{XX0232}\n"
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" \\gtab{Mi}{022100}\n"
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" \\gtab{Fa}{1:022100}\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"To produce a repeat sign you should use the *\\rep* command. To repeat four "
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"times a line, use the following command."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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#, no-wrap
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msgid " \\rep{4}\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Title ##
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msgid "Example"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"Here is an example of song file that could be used as a starting point to "
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"add a new song to the songbook. This is the lyrics and chord information for "
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"*Where is my mind* by the Pixies."
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid " \\beginsong{Where Is My Mind}[by=Pixies]\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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" \\gtab{La&m}{4:133211}\n"
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" \\gtab{La}{5:133211}\n"
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" \\gtab{Do#}{4,X13331}\n"
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" \\gtab{Si}{2,X13331}\n"
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msgstr ""
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msgid " \\beginverse\n"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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" \\beginchorus\n"
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" \\[Mi]Where is my \\[Do#m]mind?\n"
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" \\[La&m] Where is my mind?\\[La]\n"
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" \\[Mi]Where is my \\[Do#m]mind? \\[La&m] \\[La]\n"
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" \\endchorus\n"
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msgstr ""
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msgid ""
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" \\beginverse\n"
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" \\[Mi]Way \\[Labm]out in the \\[La]water see it \\[Lam]swimmin' \\[Do#] {\\ldots} \\[Si]\n"
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" \\endverse\n"
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msgstr ""
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#, no-wrap
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msgid ""
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" \\beginverse\n"
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" I was swimmin' in the Carribean\n"
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" Animals were hiding behind the rock\n"
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" Except the little fish\n"
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" But they told me, he swears\n"
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" Tryin' to talk to me to me to me\n"
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" \\endverse\n"
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msgstr ""
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msgid " \\endsong\n"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Title ##
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msgid "Sending your work for inclusion"
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msgstr ""
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#. type: Plain text
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msgid ""
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"If you add song to your songbook, why don't you send us your file. We will "
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"take a look at it and will be pleased to add it into the official songbook. "
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"As always, contributors are welcomed."
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msgstr ""
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