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"If I Could Bottle This Up" is a song written by Paul Overstreet and Dean Dillon. It was recorded as a duet by country singers George Jones and Shelby Lynne and released as a single in September 1988, peaking at #43. [1] It was Lynne's first single release and she would follow it with her debut LP Sunrise, which Billy Sherrill would also produce.
The song tells the story of a wild party "at the Jones' place" and the hangover that followed. At one point Merle laments that the woman he brought to the party "wound up in Jones' bed and I wound up on the floor." The track also features a New Orleans horn section. The title of the song refers to a shot of Canadian Club whisky with a water chaser.
"Yesterday's Wine" was released as a single by RCA in the fall of 1971. Its parent album, which opened with a peculiar existential dialogue featuring Nelson and contained songs with philosophical and spiritual themes, confounded the label, with the singer later lamenting, "I think it's one of my best albums but Yesterday's Wine was regarded by RCA as way too spooky and far out to waste ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist . The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto " and their writer, as a " librettist ".
"El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)" Single by Simon & Garfunkel featuring Los Incas; from the album Bridge over Troubled Water; B-side "Why Don't You Write Me" Released: September 1970: Genre: Folk rock; Andean music [4] Length: 3: 06: Label: Columbia: Songwriter(s) Daniel Alomía Robles (music) Paul Simon (English lyrics) Jorge Milchberg ...
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Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas. Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and ...