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"Laughing Song" is a lyric poem, written in three stanzas of four-beat lines, rhyming AABB. The title of this poem and its rhyme scheme is very appropriate for the message that Blake is trying to convey.
The three poems, "Song 1st by a shepherd", "Song 2nd by a Yound Shepherd" and "Song 3 d by an old shepherd" are not in Blake's handwriting, but are thought to be of his composition insofar as "Song 2nd" is an early draft of "Laughing Song" from Songs of Innocence (1789). [61]
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The Lamb (poem) Laughing Song; The Lilly (poem) The Little Black Boy; The Little Boy Found; A Little Boy Lost; The Little Boy Lost; The Little Girl Found; A Little Girl Lost; The Little Girl Lost; The Little Vagabond; London (William Blake poem)
"The Laughing Song" was number one for ten weeks from April to June 1891, while "The Whistling Coon" was number one for five weeks in July and August 1891. Johnson was the first African American to appear on the pop chart, and his song on the chart was the first to have been written by an African American. [7]
"The Laughing Policeman" is a music hall song recorded by British artist Charles Penrose, initially published under the pseudonym Charles Jolly in 1922.It is an adaptation of "The Laughing Song" first recorded in 1890 by American singer George W. Johnson with the same tune and form, but the subject was changed from a "dandy darky" to a policeman.
The English band The Unthanks recorded a version of this song on their 2015 album Mount the Air, [16] and the song appeared in the BBC series Detectorists, and the 4th season of the HBO series True Detective. The American alternative rock band The Innocence Mission featured a song called "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy" on their 2003 album Befriended.
Minnehaha is a Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean "laughing water", literally translates to "waterfall" or "rapid water" in Dakota. [1]