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Collected Item: “Pandemic songs - modern classics reworded”

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Pandemic songs - modern classics reworded

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Word document containing song lyrics

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For about 18 months during the main phase of the pandemic, I sent a daily covid (numbers and rates) tracker to a large number of colleagues in the Health and Social Care community in Plymouth. From October 2021 to March 2022, on each Friday I also included, with the covid tracker, a reworked pop song with Covid-related lyrics. It was a bit of fun, but people loved it and some Teams actually had a sing along to the new release each Friday. Depending on your age, you may know some of them. If nothing else, it made people look at the tracker.

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#plymouth,#covid,#poems,#songs

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Self

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0031-03-22
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