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Bears, balloons, and dolls that look like Nick Cave. You were game for songs about toysHey, kids! Enjoy it while you can. Last week I asked you to nominate the best songs about toys. And it seems that the temporary nature of play – and of childhood itself – is never far from many songwriters' minds.Take Vic Chesnutt's Teddy Bear, a song named after a toy to which many children form an intense emotional attachment. "He ain't never coming back," laments Chesnutt, sadly no longer with us. Bert ...

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