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“The song was like this,”

and the prince said as he started singing.


‘Today, I will grind wheat.
 Tomorrow, I will marry a girl.
 The girl is crying, locked up in a
 servant's room.
 She does not know what my name is.
 My name, it’s Titteli Tule.
 My name, it’s Titteli Tule.’