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Unlike the soundtrack version, the single version of the song was re-produced with additional instrumentation (notably [[banjo|banjos]]) by American Music Award winning music producer [[Ali Dee Theodore]], Jordan Yaeger and Harvey Mason Jr. The single version was extended by an additional minute.<ref>http://www.fuse.tv/2013/03/could-anna-kendrick-cups-pitch-perfect-radio-hit</ref>
Prior to the single's release, covers of the song as well as tutorials on how to do the song (using cups) went [[viral video|viral]]. The lyrics, vague as to why the subject of the song is going to "miss me when I'm gone", though other possibilities are a failed relationship that's ending and the singer is trying to convince the listener to stay together, or that the singer has [[wanderlust]] to see the world ("I got my ticket for the long way round") and would like to take the listener with him/her on the journey. Given the period that the song was originally written (between the two [[World Wars]] and during [[the Depression]] and [[the Dust Bowl]] when thousands migrated in search of jobs) the latter situation is the most likely, and still holds true in today's [[global economy]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}}
==Chart performance==
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