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The Take Out — from Alex's original post

The Take Out

A take out is the place on the shore where you pull a canoe out of the water. Mike wrote it thinking about his father, who spent his life running rivers.

"Take Out" is an instrumental, so lyrically it's hard to attach a title to it: you have to sort of formulate a visual image. A take out is a place on the shore where you pull your canoe out of the water or put it into the water... And uh, Mike's dad is one of those people who -- I think they even made a National Geographic Explorer thing about his group. They do a lot of whitewater canoeing and rafting and exploring and adventuring. And [Mike] just thought about his dad, [and] being on the river, when he wrote that song.

-Dave Schools

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Frequency
1 in every 8.4 shows
Most common lead in
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Most common lead out
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Most common set position
Set 1, song 1 (77 times)

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