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Fare Thee Well (song) "Fare Thee Well" (also known as " The Turtle Dove " or " 10,000 Miles ") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, listed as number 422 in the Roud Folk Song Index. In the song, a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey, and the lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers.
Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. " A Red, Red Rose " is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title " (Oh) My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose " and is often published as a poem. Many composers have set Burns' lyric to music, but it gained worldwide popularity set to the ...
From the 1913 sheet music. Performed by Steven M. Alper) " Low Bridge, Everybody Down " is a folk song credited to Thomas S. Allen (although its origin and authorship remain in question [1]), first recorded in 1912, [2] and published by F.B. Haviland Publishing Company in 1913. [3] It was written after the construction of the New York State ...
The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. 1. " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening " is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume.
Dichterliebe, A Poet's Love (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle by Robert Schumann (Op. 48). The texts for its 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine, written in 1822–23 and published as part of Heine's Das Buch der Lieder. Along with the song cycles of Franz Schubert (Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise ...
The figure of "ten thousand miles" could well refer to the distance between England and Australia, and the separation of the lovers arises because the singer's lover has been transported. Several of the variant texts make this possibility more explicit. [3] For example, the lyrics sung by Jon Boden have the lines.
According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer, "The Cuckoo" is an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires — to gamble, to win, to regain love's affection." [3] The song is featured in the E.L. Doctorow book The March. A soldier suffering from a metal spike stuck in his head sings verses from the song.
Interpretations of the lyrics vary widely. [8] [9] Writing in Entertainment Weekly about a 1996 Sting tour, Chris Willman said: "The late-inning number that really gets [the crowd] galvanized is the edgy old Police staple that has the most old-fashioned unresolved rock tension in it, 'Synchronicity II'—which, after all, is a song about a domestic crisis so anxiety-producing that it wakes up ...