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I am a million peopleβs wakeup call
What can be heard in court or used to carry briefs?
I am an odd number that become even when beheaded.
My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go, I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?
The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What are we?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.