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What if you were forced to listen to 'It's a Small World' for an hour straight?

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Disney World's "It's a Small World" ride broke down and dozens of people were stuck on their boats listening to animatronic characters sing to them over and over. One person said it was like torture.

(SOUNDBITE OF ROBERT B. SHERMAN AND RICHARD M. SHERMAN SONG, "IT'S A SMALL WORLD")

A MARTINEZ, HOST:

Good morning. I'm A Martinez.

What if you were forced to listen to this song for an hour straight? That was a predicament for some unlucky Disney World guests. The Small World ride broke down, and dozens of people, young and old, were stuck on their boats, listening to animatronic characters sing to them over and over and over. One survivor of the ordeal said it was like torture - definitely not a world of laughter but one of tears, and not one of hopes, just a world of musical-loop fears.

It's MORNING EDITION.