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Donovan put the message "This machine kills" on his guitar, leaving off the word "fascists"; he explained in his autobiography, "I dropped the last word, thinking fascism was already dead." [14] The Dropkick Murphys' 11th studio album, composed of songs set to unused lyrics and words by Guthrie, is titled This Machine Still Kills Fascists. [15]
The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...
"My Old School" is a song by American rock band Steely Dan. It was released in October 1973, as the second single from their album Countdown to Ecstasy , and reached number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
Old Age" is a song first released by the American rock band Hole, composed by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana with lyrics later written by Courtney Love. At the time of Hole's recording of the song, Love was married to Cobain. The song was unknown as a Nirvana song during the band's existence, and its authorship was originally attributed to Love.
When the old man died. Ninety years without slumbering (tick, tick, tick, tick), His life seconds numbering, (tick, tick, tick, tick), It stopp'd short — never to go again — When the old man died. In watching its pendulum swing to and fro, Many hours had he spent while a boy. And in childhood and manhood the clock seemed to know
Liking the lyric "this old Nebraska town", Richard Marx wrote to the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, asking for a list of Nebraska towns with two syllables, finding Hazard ideal for its double meaning (the lyrics refer to a river; the real Hazard does not possess one, although there is a muddy creek).
The meaning and lyrics behind the popular end-of-year song. ... "Auld Lang Syne" directly translates to "old long since" in 18th-century Scots. This essentially means times gone by or "old times."
"This Charming Man" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by guitarist Johnny Marr and singer Morrissey. Released as the group's second single in October 1983 on the independent record label Rough Trade, it is defined by Marr's jangle pop guitar riff and Morrissey's characteristically morose lyrics, which revolve around the recurrent Smiths themes of sexual ambiguity and lust. [1]