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'Baby Shark' song used to soothe toddler becomes rallying cry in Lebanon

Demonstrators carry national flags during an anti-government protest in Tripoli, Lebanon October 22, 2019. [Reuters]

A popular children’s song became a rallying cry in Lebanon after protesters in Beirut spontaneously sang the hit to calm a toddler caught in the midst of a noisy demonstration.

When driver Eliane Jabbour was surrounded by a rally in the capital last weekend, she asked protesters if they could stop shouting as her young son, Robin, was asleep in the front passenger seat.

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