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Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish, with the words: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a hare alive; Six, seven, eight, nine and ten, I let him go again. [1] The modern version is derived from three variations collected by Henry Bolton in the 1880s from America. [1]
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
The song was published in various places through the decades following the late 1960s, including a volume of "constructive recreational activities" for children (1957), [2] a book of drama projects for disabled children (1967), [3] and a nursing home manual (1966). [4] In 1971, Jonico Music filed for copyright on the song, crediting it to Joe ...
1234 (Feist song) " 1234 " is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist from her third studio album, The Reminder. The song was co-written by Feist and Sally Seltmann, an Australian singer-songwriter who also recorded under the stage name New Buffalo. [ 1] It remains Feist's biggest hit single in the US to date, and her only song to chart on ...
It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". [ 1] The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" ( swag) slung over one's back. [ 2] The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", boiling a billy at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep ...
The music video for the song premiered on the MySpace main page January 16, 2009 [3] and was subsequently released on MTV, MTVU, VH1, Fuse, Music Choice and YouTube. [4] [5] [6] It found success on the weekly VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown, charting over five months straight between January and May, peaking at #5.
Like the herring buss, they were wide-beamed and bluff-bowed, but considerably smaller, about 15 metres long, a maximum beam of 4.5 metres, a draught of 1.5 metres, and displacing about 13 tonnes. They could carry a tonne of bait, three tonnes of salt, half a tonne each of food and firewood for the crew, and return with six tonnes of fish. [33]
"Imagine" is a song by the English rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The best-selling single of his solo career, the lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, without materialism, without borders separating nations and without religion.