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This is a dish containing beans, sometimes baked but, despite the name, usually stewed, in a sauce
I never was but am always to be, and everyone looks forward to me
This is the main ingredient in spaghetti and Mac-ยญN-ยญCheese.
What has thousands of ribs and two backbones?
Everybody's got one.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.