If at first you don't succeed, cry and cry again!
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Twenty. One to hold the bulb, two to turn the ladder, and 17 to be on the guest list.
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In the neigh-borhood.
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Two. One to change the bulb, and one to write a song about how good the old light bulb was.
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Five: one to handle the bulb and four to contemplate how David Sanborn would've done it.
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Does it have to be a light bulb? I've got this neat candle holder...
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