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== [[Theatre]] ==

* Possibly either inverted or subverted by the music of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. Very, ''very'' few of their songs are named after the most well-known line of their refrain- — because, as is traditional in opera, they're ''all'' named after the first line of the song itself. Thus, they never wrote a song called 'I Am A Pirate King' (it's called 'Oh, Better Far To Live And Die') or 'I've Got A Little List' (it's called 'As Some Day It May Happen') and 'I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General' is only called such because that's the opening line as well as the main refrain (ironically despite that, a lot of people seem to think it's called 'The Major General Song').