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Adams includes an exposition on sailors' chanties, including their melodies and sample lyrics. In this discussion he quotes "Paddy, Come Work on the Railway": In eighteen hundred and sixty-three, I came across the stormy sea. My dung'ree breeches I put on Chorus: To work upon the railway, the railway, To work up-on the railway.
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (/ ˌ s uː p ər ˌ k æ l ɪ ˌ f r æ dʒ ɪ ˌ l ɪ s t ɪ k ˌ ɛ k s p i ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ ʃ ə s / ⓘ SOO-pər-KAL-ih ...
Faith Hill's joyful, upbeat song about giddy love still gives us butterflies — even if "centrifugal motion" doesn't mean what those famous lyrics intend them to. (Hey, let's not let science ruin ...
The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below.
"Erika" is both a common German female name and the German word for heather.The lyrics and melody of the song were written by Herms Niel, a German composer of marches.The exact year of the song's origin is not known; often the date is given as "about 1930", [3] but this has never been substantiated.
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The melody of "The ABC Song" was first published in the French book of music Les Amusements d'une Heure et Demy (transl. Amusements of an Hour and a Half) (1761) without lyrics. It was adapted in Mozart 's Twelve Variations and used in many nursery rhymes around the world, including " Ah! vous dirai-je, maman ", " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ...
When asked by interviewer Terry Gross what was going through his mind when he wrote the song's lyrics, Webb replied that it was meant to be symbolic and referred to the end of a love affair. [6] In an interview with Newsday in October 2014, Webb explained: Everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated.