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It's my party and I'll cry if I want to
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So run the lyrics of one of the defining songs of the early 1960s, sung by New York-born Lesley Gore and the subject of many cover versions. The party in question, a birthday party in which the singer recites her humiliation when boyfriend Johnny leaves her for another girl, Judy, is of course nothing to do with Sweden's Pirate Party, though it was in