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It's about the young men that lived in Greenwish Village and North Beach that we today call "Beatniks." Written by Fran Landesman for the 1959 play, "The Nervous Set," it is about the men that sit in coffee houses and bars, and bemoan the state of the world while wearing black and playing bongos.
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