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| Let me tell you all about Day of the Dead |
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| Many of us skeletons have great fun all around Oaxaca |
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| We come here to play, and visit our reletives |
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| Some of us are quite beautiful |
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| and we like to dress up |
People get so happy they dance in the streets
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| Kids like to dress up too |
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| Some of us are very tall |
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| Some of us collect skulls |
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We don't like to make trouble with the Catholic Church, so sometimes we call it All Saints Day
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| We especially come to life as dark approaches |
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| Lots of people buy us flowers |
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| Facepainting becomes a fine art around this time of year |
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| To visit us at our graves, they put out flowers to show us the way |
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| and light candles and burn incense |
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| Cemeteries become wonderful parties |
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| If you find an undecorated gravesite, and put a flower on it, you can offer up a bad habit that you want to get rid of, but you might have a hard time finding an undecorated grave |
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| You can stay at your favorite cemetery for hours, because just outside, lots of people are selling food and drink |
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| And some people keep on celebrating the dead all year long! |
