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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 ...
For I'm on the move to my own true love, Ten thousand miles away. Verse 2. My true love, she is beautiful, My true love she is young; Her eyes are as blue as the violet's hue, and silvery sounds her tongue And silvery sounds her tongue, my boys, But while I sing this lay, She is doing the grand in a distant land, Ten thousand miles away. Verse 3
Unknown. " Dink's Song " (sometimes known as " Fare Thee Well ") is an American folk song played by many folk revival musicians such as Pete Seeger, Fred Neil, Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Cisco Houston as well as more recent musicians like Jeff Buckley. The song tells the story of a woman deserted by her lover when ...
1789. " My Heart's in the Highlands " is a 1789 song and poem by Robert Burns, sung to the tune "Fàilte na Miosg". [1] 1: My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. 2:
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 ...
Sammy Cahn. Composer (s) Jule Styne. The song was composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn (picture). " I Fall in Love Too Easily " is a 1944 song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was introduced by Frank Sinatra in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh. The film won an Academy Award for its music; "I Fall in Love Too Easily ...
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.