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The song "Shenandoah" appears to have originated with American and Canadian voyageurs or fur traders traveling down the Missouri River in canoes and has developed several different sets of lyrics. Some lyrics refer to the Oneida chief Shenandoah and a canoe-going trader who wants to marry his daughter.
"Old Folks at Home" (also known as "Swanee River") is a folk song written by Stephen Foster in 1851. Since 1935, it has been the official state song of Florida , although in 2008 the original lyrics were revised . [ 1 ]
The song's lyrics reference the Monongahela River, a river in Pennsylvania. Group member Duane Allen stated that the members all liked the sound of the name "Monongahela", and thus named the corresponding album Monongahela as well. [1] In October 1988, the song ascended to number one on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart. [2] "
Rivers of Babylon" is a Rastafari song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics are adapted from the texts of Psalms 19 and 137 in the Hebrew Bible .
"Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river's federal hydroelectric facilities (primarily Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee Dam).
The title character of "Old Rivers" is an elderly farmer, a childhood friend of the song's main protagonist. The protagonist, whose family is very poor, recalls how Old Rivers used a mule-drawn plow to cultivate fields in the hot sun. The mule's name was "Midnight," and together man and mule would plow straight, deep rows for the crops, which ...
Paul Dresser, c. 1897. Paul Dresser, a prominent 19th-century lyricist and music composer, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. [1] [n 1] Dresser’s boyhood home was near land adjacent to the Wabash River, the primary internal waterway in the state of Indiana.