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In a 1969 interview, Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. [10] In the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of Bayou Country, Joel Selvin explained that the songs for the album started when Fogerty was in the National Guard, that the riffs for "Proud Mary", "Born on the Bayou", and "Keep on Chooglin'" were conceived by Fogerty at a ...
Of the Columbia River Ballads "Roll on, Columbia", which he set to a modified version of Huddie Ledbetter's "Goodnight, Irene", was by far the most popular. Because of the song's message and popularity, it was established as the official folk song of Washington in 1987.
Missouri, she's a mighty river. Away you rolling river. The redskins' camp, lies on its borders. Ah-ha, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri. The white man loved the Indian maiden, Away you rolling river With notions [b] his canoe was laden. Ah-ha, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri. "O, Shenandoah, I love your daughter, Away you ...
"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 [5] musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River .
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"Down by the Riverside" (also known as "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" and "Gonna lay down my burden") is an African-American spiritual.Its roots date back to before the American Civil War, [1] though it was first published in 1918 in Plantation Melodies: A Collection of Modern, Popular and Old-time Negro-Songs of the Southland, Chicago, the Rodeheaver Company. [2]
At least three deer hunters in Michigan have died from heart attacks this hunting season, according to local reports.. The three men, who were located in Arenac and Tuscola counties, were ages 57 ...
Fast food gets a bad rap for being unhealthy, but there are healthy fast food options at chains like McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and Sonic. Dietitians explain.