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The song was developed on the band's warm-up tour during soundchecks. [3] [4] "Jacob's Ladder" uses several time and key signatures, and possesses a dark, ominous feel in its first half. The lyrics are based on a simple concept; a vision of sunlight breaking through storm clouds.
"Jacob's Ladder" uses multiple time signatures, and possesses a dark, ominous feel in its first half. Its lyrics are based on a simple concept: a vision of sunlight breaking through storm clouds. The title is a reference to the natural phenomenon of the sun breaking through the clouds in visible rays, which in turn is named after the Biblical ...
We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a spiritual. [1] As a folk song originating in a repressed culture, the song's origins are lost. Some academics believe it emerged as early as 1750, [ 3 ] and definitely no later than 1825, [ 4 ] and was composed by American slaves taken from the area now known as Liberia . [ 3 ]
"Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby and recorded by Huey Lewis and the News. The song spent one week at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, [ 1 ] becoming the band's third and final number-one hit.
Although the lyrics at the end of the song could be interpreted as mentions to the Biblical Jaccob's Ladder, the concept of the song is about a storm being formed and at the end of storms Crepuscular rays can often be seen -- and these rays are commonly named "Jaccob's Ladder" --Pinnecco 13:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
"Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" is a song by English rock band Chumbawamba. An earlier version of the song, criticizing Winston Churchill , was included on their 2002 studio album Readymades , but in response to the incipient Iraq War , the group rewrote the song as a broader criticism of war.
A Jacob's Ladder unfolded Watch toy in action (Ogg Theora format, 1.7 MB) A Jacob's ladder (also magic tablets, Chinese blocks, and klick-klack toy [1]) is a folk toy consisting of blocks of wood held together by strings or ribbons. When the ladder is held at one end, blocks appear to cascade down the strings.
Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב , romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) is a ladder or staircase leading to Heaven that was featured in a dream the Biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).