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Restart Ballad

Generate the lyrics of the song 'I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly'. While you could copy/paste the lyrics, or read them from a file, this problem is much more interesting if you approach it algorithmically.

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Restart Ballad
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algorithmstext formatting
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Standard

Standard engineering judgment. Multiple edge cases worth handling.

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