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" (Given that the word was already Jazz slang for both "swger" and "homosexual" by that time, this may have been an tentnal Double Entendre, an -joke that most listeners would miss.
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) In Jerry Vale's "Pretend You Don't See Her", the sger advis himself to "se and pretend to be gay" when the object of his unrequed affectns approach. In the classic ballad "The Cowboy's Lament" (perhaps better known as "The Streets of Laredo") the dyg wboy sgs "Once the saddle I ed to go dashg, once the saddle I ed to go gay.