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In The Unit episode 2.15, "The Water is Wide", Sergeant First Class Hector Williams, aka Hammerhead (played by Demore Barnes), sings the first few bars of the song to calm the United Nations Secretary General, who has stepped on a pressure bomb, and to manage the pace while he delicately eases the dignitary off the device's pressure pad and himself onto it, until such time as The Unit can defuse it. Time is of the essence; the Secretary General is experiencing muscle spasms (which could detonate the bomb) and cannot hold still much longer. The song serves its purpose; Williams successfully takes the Secretary General's place, after which Williams remarks, "Damn, if I can remember" the song's next lines.
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