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The actual origin of "Down by the Bay" is uncertain as it shares the melody with other songs. One of these is a Greek folk song called "Γιαλό, γιαλό" ("γιαλό" meaning "bay" or "seaside") exists with this same melody. [1] It is an Ionian Cantada, a style of folk music that originated in the late 19th century. [1]
The lyrics juxtapose the many marvels and feats of human civilisation with the death of the natural world, constantly emphasising the passing of time — "Time is not a friend, 'cos friends we're out of time". The recording features a lead guitar solo in the style of George Harrison. Lennon originally wrote a guitar solo for the song.
It’s a march basically, and we all sing this song. And it’s another excuse to chuck buckets of water! So obviously we didn’t do it in the studio. We had this little area outside the back of the studio where a camera would sort of poke out of the window, so we ended the show down there marching about, sploshing all this water from the buckets.
The song’s final verse bluntly addressed the dangers of various STDs, with Salt-N-Pepa rapping: “Like a dumb son-of-a-gun, oops, he forgot the condoms/’Oh well,’ you say ‘What the hell ...
The song also appears at the opening of the opera The Abduction of Figaro by Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach). The song is the title of the play "Found a Peanut" by Donald Margulies. The character Jeffery Smolowitz sings the song. The song appeared on This Morning with Richard Not Judy with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.
“But this one song, [“Kids”], is from a writer and producer, Dave Stewart, and it’s a great song.” McIntyre explained that the new track is a good encapsulation of the band’s career ...
Version in the Kommersbuch. In later German sources the song is reproduced under the title of "Heinrich und Liese" and credited as a folk song from Hesse. In the 19th century it was sung as a commercium song and printed in the 1858 Allgemeines Deutsches Kommersbuch.
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