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Let me tell you has a duration of approximately 30 minutes and is composed in three parts comprising a total of seven songs: Part I: Let me tell you how it was; O but memory is not one but many; There was a time, I remember; Part II: Let me tell you how it is; Now I do not mind; Part III: I know you are there; I will go out now
The song is a mini-opera of a duet between the "Junior", of kindergarten age, who demands his hard working father to read him a story. The father, who has gotten no raise at work, is wanting to seek relief from the world, when all of a sudden, the "Junior" yells out to him to repeatedly tell him a story.
Lyrically, the song refers to the liberation of the ancient Jewish people from Egyptian slavery. That story held a second meaning for enslaved African Americans, because they related their experiences under slavery to those of Moses and the Israelites who were enslaved by the pharaoh, [5] and the idea that God would come to the aid of the persecuted resonated with them.
After the death of Alexander Hamilton, the already deceased George Washington comes forward and repeats a line from his earlier song, "History Has Its Eyes on You": "Let me tell you what I wish I'd known/When I was young and dreamed of glory/You have no control", then the rest of the cast joins in with this song's title: "Who lives, who dies, who tells your story."
Let me tell you may refer to: Let me tell you, a novella by Paul Griffiths (writer) Let Me Tell You, a posthumous collection of work by Shirley Jackson, published by Random House in 2015; Let me tell you, a composition for soprano and symphony orchestra by Hans Abrahamsen "Let Me Tell You", song by Julian Lennon from The Secret Value of Daydreaming
The song "Greenfields" co-written with band-mates Frank Miller and Richard Dehr became a number two song in North America in 1960 when performed by The Brothers Four. In the 1960s, he left the group to work for the Walt Disney Studios , writing music both for movies and the television series The Wonderful World of Disney especially " The ...
Let Me Tell You About a Song is the fourteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1972. It reached No. 7 on the Billboard Country album chart and #166 on the Pop album chart. The lead-off singles were "Grandma Harp" and "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" — both reached No. 1.
"Tell Me a Story" is the first single by Australian rock-pop band 1927's second studio album The Other Side (1990). The track was released in May 1990 and peaked at number 17 in May on the ARIA singles chart .