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TIL according to the book “Light My Fire” by fellow Doors member Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison was in fact singing “I woke up this mornin’ and I got myself a beard”, as the song allegedly tells of Morrison waking up after 3 weeks of drug induced sleep.

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