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"The Sweet Trinity" (Roud 122, Child 286), also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty.The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
Augusta is an album by the country singer Willie Nelson and the big band singer Don Cherry. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was released in 1995 on Sundown Records. The title track is about the Masters Tournament .
Roland Hayes – recorded the song for Victor Records in 1927. [4] A Song Recital (Columbia Masterworks M-393, 1939) includes an unaccompanied piece in a selected set of mostly classical selections. [5] Hayes published his arrangement of the song as part of the song cycle Life of Christ, [6] and recorded it again in 1953 and other times. Later ...
"Light One Candle" is a song by the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The trio performed the song in concerts starting in 1982, before recording it for their 1986 studio album No Easy Walk to Freedom. A popular Hanukkah song, "Light One Candle" features lyrics commemorating the war of national liberation fought by the Maccabees against the ...
The song, which is listed as no. 35 in the Oxford Book of Carols, is very closely related to the more famous carol "The Holly and the Ivy". According to the Roud Folk Song Index , the "Sans Day Carol" and "The Holly and the Ivy" are variants of the same song (Roud 514 ).
Paul of Thebes (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲉ; Koinē Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Θηβαῖος, Paûlos ho Thēbaîos; Latin: Paulus Eremita; c. 227 – c. 341), commonly known as Paul the First Hermit or Paul the Anchorite, was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit and grazer, [2] who was claimed to have lived alone in the desert of Thebes, Roman Egypt from the age ...
"There Is a Balm in Gilead" is a traditional African American spiritual dating back to at least the 19th century. Its refrain appears in Washington Glass's 1854 hymn "The Sinner's Cure", although the hymn is substantially based on an earlier work by John Newton.
Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz.According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he said that suddenly he recalled an old ...