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So, Cornwall, January...

1) i just wanna.... (but there's a law) - 2) - shoot germans (unless there's a war) - 3) - like it's 1945 (phew, what a relief) - 4) - to hell with this fast-forward bollocks thing, year after year - 5) - i'm going backwards, backwoods and backways, and i aint looking back - 6) - i'm out on the airport runway, under moonlight and stars - 7) - i'm climbing into a lancaster cockpit, yippidy-do - 8) - let's bomb them effin' germans - 9) - the whole night through - 10) - let 'em have it chaps, right between the eyes - 11) - let fry the bastard hamburgers - 12) - let burn the nazi skies - 13) - and let us all return at daylight... heroic men - 14) - 15) - 16) - ok, so i was shot down (those bastard bosch) - 17) - my legs all broken (i walk like a drunk) - 18) - so i'm old and bitter, so? - 19) - i'll walk again - 20) - maybe even run again - 21) - like i'm ten again - 22) - 23rd - who knows? - 24) - is death the end? - 25) - blah de blah - 26) - 27) - so, today then, this day then... - 28) - jesus, i need a holiday... get away from this war in europe thing... a holiday in cornwall maybe, go just up the road, drive the coast road slowly, to st ives maybe - 29) - and thinking... shouldn't iraqis think themselves lucky, having americans there insteada germans? - 30) - are there germans in heaven? don't be silly - 31) - there ain't no heaven

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& born in january =

january 3rd, 1887 august macke
january 4th, 1643 isaac newton
january 8th, 1836 lawrence alma-tadema
january 18th, 1839 paul cezanne
january 23rd, 1832 edouard manet

& died in january =

january 8th, 1337 giotto de bondone
january 20th, 1875 jean-francois millet
january 23rd, 1944 edvard munch
january 24th, 1920 amadeo modigliani
january 26th, 1824 theodore gericault
january 29th, 1899 alfred sisley