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Lyrics vary, as with most folk songs. For example, sometimes the line "Hang your head over, hear the wind blow" is replaced by "Late in the evening, hear the train blow". [2] In 1927, Darby and Tarlton sang "down in the levee" in place of "down in the valley"; the version sung by Lead Belly in 1934 substitutes "Shreveport jail" for "Birmingham ...
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
"No Time This Time" Sting Reggatta de Blanc: 1979 [2] "Nothing Achieving" † Stewart Copeland Ian Copeland: Non-album single B-side of "Fall Out" 1977 [15] "O My God" Sting Synchronicity: 1983 [8] " Ωmegaman" Andy Summers Ghost in the Machine: 1981 [4] "On Any Other Day" Stewart Copeland Reggatta de Blanc: 1979 [2] "Once Upon a Daydream ...
“Hit 8 Mile Road!” Young said, addressing criminals in Detroit. The mayor, who died in 1997, long maintained he was ordering lawbreakers to get out of town.
He blew with His winds, and they were scattered (Latin: Flavit et Dissipati Sunt) is a phrase used in the aftermath of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. It referred to the storms in the northern Atlantic Ocean that destroyed much of the Armada, a large naval fleet commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia , after it retreated following an ...
“Candle in the Wind 1997” is the highest-selling single of all time, and apparently, it took less than an hour to write. In a new interview on The Graham Norton Show, lyricist Bernie Taupin ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
This quotation was voted the number one movie line of all time by the American Film Institute in 2005. [4] However, Marlon Brando was critical of Gable's delivery of the line, commenting—in the audio recordings distributed by Listen to Me Marlon (2015)—that "When an actor takes a little too long as he's walking to the door, you know he's gonna stop and turn around and say, 'Frankly, my ...