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"The Hearse Song" is a piece of folklore with an unusually large number of variants, created over several generations. Carl Sandburg, in his 1927 book American Songbag, printed two early variations, the first being: [7] The Old Grey Hearse goes rolling by, You don't know whether to laugh or cry; For you know some day it'll get you too,
Hindsight 20/20 is a greatest hits compilation album by the Canadian comedy music group The Arrogant Worms. [1] The album consists of twenty songs spanning the band’s twenty-year career and a dance remix of "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate."
The new Killing Joke line-up recorded again with Plank, yielding the single "Birds of a Feather" and a six-track 10" EP Ha!, recorded live at Larry's Hideaway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in August. In 1983 the band released Fire Dances and its single, " Let's All Go (to the Fire Dances) ", the first Killing Joke single to be promoted with a ...
By the late 1980s, the "Napalm" cadence had been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces.Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy: "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike ...
The song helped launch the career of children's entertainer Fred Penner. He has used the song as part of a medley that includes the tune heard in "Hit the Road Jack" with lyrics changed to "Hit the Road, Cat". The song was adapted in Afrikaans as "Die kat kom weer". The Afrikaans version had several references to the Boer War and British ...
Howlin' Wolf recorded "Killing Floor" in Chicago in August 1964, which Chess Records released as a single. [2] According to blues guitarist and longtime Wolf associate Hubert Sumlin, the song uses the killing floor – the area of a slaughterhouse where animals are killed – as a metaphor or allegory for male-female relationships: "Down on the killing floor – that means a woman has you down ...
"Jumper" is an alternative rock [8] and acoustic power pop song. [9] According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Alfred Publishing, the song is written in the key of C major [10] and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 88 beats per minute. [11] Jenkins' vocal range spans one octave, from C 4 to A 5. [11]
"Again" is a popular song with music by Lionel Newman and words by Dorcas Cochran. It first appeared in the film Road House ( 1948 ), sung by Ida Lupino . [ 1 ] An instrumental rendition was used in the movie Pickup on South Street ( 1953 ).