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Lyricist Norman Newell would recall that his publisher phoned him on a Friday requesting he write English lyrics for Lolita's hit "Sailor (Your Home is the Sea)": although Newell agreed to prepare the lyrics over the weekend the assignment slipped his mind until a messenger arrived Monday morning to pick up Newell's work.
A home on the rolling deep! Where the scatter'd waters rave, and the winds their revels keep; Like an eagle cag'd I pine, On this dull, unchanging shore; Oh give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest's roar. (Chorus) A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, and the winds their revels keep,
His poem entitled "Lead My America" was performed by the Fred Waring Chorus in 1957. [6] Composer Gertrude Ross (1889-1957) used Clark’s text for her song “Roundup Lullaby: A Cowboy’s Night Song to the Cattle.” [9] Pete Seeger included "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" on his 1960 album The Rainbow Quest. [5]
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
The ballad is an adaptation of a sea song called "The Sailor's Grave" or "The Ocean Burial", which began "O bury me not in the deep, deep sea." [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Ocean Burial was written by Edwin Hubbell Chapin , published in 1839, and put to music by George N. Allen.
The Unchanging Sea (1910), a short film by D.W. Griffith, was inspired by the "Three Fishers" poem. The first stanza is used in the film itself. And Women Shall Weep - 1960; The poem is recited by J. Edward Bromberg in the 1946 film Queen of the Amazons. Quoted by actress Ester Howard in the 1941 film "Sullivan's Travels."
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"Maggie May" (or "Maggie Mae") (Roud No. 1757) is a traditional Liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a "homeward bounder", a sailor coming home from a round trip. John Manifold, in his Penguin Australian Song Book, described it as "A foc'sle song of Liverpool origin apparently, but immensely popular among seamen all over the world ...