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Long, Long Ago" is a song dealing with nostalgia, written in 1833 by English composer Thomas Haynes Bayly. Originally called "The Long Ago", its name was apparently changed by the editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold when it was first published, posthumously, in a Philadelphia magazine, along with a collection of other songs and poems by Bayly.
The lyrics evoke a motif common in Taylor's songs, that of the sea and sailing away for one reason or another. [3] [5] Other images in the lyrics include "tender dreams" and "broken glass." [3] Towards the end of the song the singer asks why his song is so sad. [3] The phrase "long ago and far away" never appears in the lyrics. [4]
The people of this period are called Hisat'sinom, which is the Hopi word for "long-ago people". They are often referred to as Anasazi, as the Navajo guides who helped nineteenth-century anthropologists and archaeologists called them. However, the word "Anasazi" is Navajo for "enemies of our ancestors", and the present-day Hopi population prefer ...
The Crosby version of "Long Ago (and Far Away)" was used in the film Someone to Love (1987). [5] Johnny Desmond sang it in German with Glenn Miller and the American Band of the AEF during World War II. It was used as psychological warfare aimed at the German populace and especially the Wehrmacht. [6]
Regional tensions rose again, and yet another war — this one between Israel and Lebanon — broke out in 1982. ... with the long-ago breakthrough in the mountains of Maryland the primary focus.
It has been combined in recent years with another saying, 台灣民主萬歲 (Táiwān mínzhǔ wànsuì; '[may] a democratic Taiwan [live for] ten thousand years!', translated as Long Live the Democratic Taiwan!) When this is said, everyone raises their right fists while standing.
5 Other uses. 6 See also. ... An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. ... (2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago) ...
A long time ago; from Gaius Lucilius, Satires VI, 284 a falsis principiis proficisci: to set forth from false principles: Legal phrase. From Cicero, De Finibus IV.53. a fortiori: from the stronger: i.e., "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary. a maiore ad minus