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It can, depending on the pronunciation. Many accents do not use the hard D at the end of "hand" making it sound like "han" -- this is close enough for song lyrics. (e.g. he's all you can stand, give him a hand, Guitarzan)

A similar phenomenon occurs for words ending in -ING which are often pronounced (intentionally) as if they ended in -IN, e.g. Runnin' on Empty.

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