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The custom of the Christmas tree developed in the course of the 19th century, and the song came to be seen as a Christmas carol. Anschütz's version still had treu (true, faithful) as the adjective describing the fir's leaves (needles), harking back to the contrast to the faithless maiden of the folk song.
John Masey Wright and John Rogers' illustration of the poem, c. 1841 "Auld Lang Syne" (Scots pronunciation: [ˈɔːl(d) lɑŋ ˈsəi̯n]) [a] [1] is a Scottish song. In the English-speaking world, it is traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay/New Year's Eve.
When over its branches the sunlight is breaking, (or: Whenever the light through its branches is breaking,) A host of kind faces is gazing on me. The friends of my childhood again are before me; Each step wakes a memory as freely I roam. With (soft) whispers laden the leaves rustle o'er me; The ash grove, the ash grove alone (again) is my home.
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Original sheet music cover "Remember" is a popular song about nostalgia [1] by Irving Berlin, published in 1925.The song is a popular standard, recorded by numerous artists.. In the lyric, Berlin uses an interesting poetic technique by extending the sound of the word "forgot" into "forget me not" then placing the original word (forgot) and the base form of its opposite (remember) at the end of ...
In 1912, Ruth Herbert Lewis made a wax cylinder recording of a Welshman named Benjamin Davies singing a song, "Can y Coach faier", which uses the old melody now associated with "Deck the Halls". The recording can be heard on the British Library Sound Archive website.
The song often consists mainly of "floating" verses (verses found in more than one song expressing common experiences and emotions), and apart from the constant cuckoo verse, usually sung at the beginning, there is no fixed order, though sometimes a verse sounds as if it is going to be the start of a story: A-walking, a-talking, a-walking was I,
Solomon Gundie, a ska song based on the nursery rhyme Salmagundi , a mixed food dish that may be the etymological source for Solomon Gundy Topics referred to by the same term