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Song with something wrong about a couple of lines (6)

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I believe the answer is:

ballad

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'song' is the definition.
(I know that ballad is a type of song)

'wrong about a couple of lines' is the wordplay.
'wrong' becomes 'bad'.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'couple of lines' becomes 'll' (two abbreviations for line).
'a'+'ll'='all'
'bad' going around 'all' is 'BALLAD'.

'with something' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for ballad that I've seen before include "Poem telling a story" , "Slow sentimental song" , "Love song" , "Slow romantic song" , "Song type" .)

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