Wouldn't It Be Nice If Everyone Was Nice

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The rather optimistic anthem sung, in a jerky and mechanical fashion, by the dolls denoting Children Of all Countries, which is brought out, every Hogswatch without fail, by the management of Crumley's department store in the Maul.

Sadly in need of repair after Death, standing in for the Hogfather, crashed a sleigh into it. In its current condition, (among other things) the little Howondalandian boy currently punctuates the song by repeatedly stabbing his white colonial neighbour with an assagai.

Annotation

The song is thought to be a parody of a sickly anthem by Roundworld's Walt Disney.

("It's A Small World After All"[1])