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Lyricist (s) Nelle Richmond Eberhart. " From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water " (1909) is a popular song composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman. He based it on an Omaha love song collected by Alice C. Fletcher. "Sky-blue water" or "clear blue water" is one possible translation of " Mnisota ", the name for the Minnesota River in the Dakota language.
In 2001, Mary Mary covered the song for their debut album, Thankful . Wade in the Water, Children is a 2008 American documentary film directed and produced by Elizabeth Wood and Gabriel Nussbaum. [ 50] It was filmed by a group of 8th grade students at the first school to reopen in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Published. 1915. "Hail to the Orange" (along with "Illinois Loyalty") is the alma mater of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Its alternate version, "Hail to the Purple," is an official song of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The song was written in 1910 by two students: Harold Vater Hill, credited with the music, and Howard ...
Viola sororia ( / vaɪˈoʊlə səˈrɔːriə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə ), [ 5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.
I Shall Not Be Moved. " I Shall Not Be Moved ", also known as " We Shall Not Be Moved ", is an African-American slave spiritual, hymn, and protest song dating to the early 19th century American south. [ 1] It was likely originally sung at revivalist camp-meetings as a slave jubilee. The song describes being "like a tree planted by the waters ...
Song. " Sweet Violets " is an American song that contains classic example of a "censored rhyme", where the expected rhyme of each couplet is replaced with a surprising word which segues into the next couplet or chorus. For example, the first couplets go: There once was a farmer who took a young miss. In back of the barn where he gave her a...
The full moon is the culmination of a lunar cycle, and typically, there is one per month, equating to 12 full moons a year. A "blue moon" refers to a second full moon that falls within the same ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.