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A banjo wouldn't be out of character though. There is a minor key modality to 'Forgetful Heart'. It's like 'Little Maggie' or 'Darling Cory', so there is no reason a banjo shouldn't fit or sound right". [2] Lyrically, the song features the rhetorical device of a first-person narrator "address(ing) his heart as if it had a mind of its own". [3]
Lamorna is a Cornish adaptation of a music hall song titled Pomona or Away down to Pomona which originates from Manchester in the north west of England. ' Albert Square ' is a square in front of Manchester Town Hall , and Pomona Palace and gardens were a site of popular entertainment in Cornbrook, Old Trafford , southwest of the city centre.
Orchestra leader Jerry Wald was a rare early aficionado of the song, and Wald's showcasing of "Poinciana" during his 1943 gig at the Hotel New Yorker has been credited with boosting its profile, [4] [5] "Poinciana" being recorded in 1943 by Glenn Miller with his Army Air Force Band, with three 1944 recordings of the song afforded hit status ...
The song is played at the end of the film after Jon Batiste's titular symphony is played by an orchestra at Carnegie Hall. It Never Went Away not only brings the music down from a whole orchestra to a piano, but is also intended to summarize the documented events.
"Don't look away from the arms of love," Billie Joe Armstrong sings, as he brings the trilogy in for a sweet, soft landing." [4] Entertainment Weekly said "The Forgotten" was the best song of the album. [5] Alternative Press said the piano line of the song is one of the limpest things the trio have ever recorded. [6]
Anschütz based his text on a 16th-century Silesian folk song by Melchior Franck [citation needed], "Ach Tannenbaum". In 1819 August Zarnack wrote a tragic love song inspired by this folk song, taking the evergreen, "faithful" fir tree as contrasting with a faithless lover. The folk song first became associated with Christmas with Anschütz ...
"Black Limousine" is one of two songs on Tattoo You credited to Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood. "Black Limousine" is a hard blues number (described as "fast mid-tempo blues of no specific nature" [1] by Jagger) which heavily hearkens back to the Rolling Stones' earliest recordings from their ABCKO/London albums.
The song's lyrics express a carpe diem sentiment, with the singer noting that the inchworm of the title has a "business-like mind", and is blind to the beauty of the flowers it encounters: Two and two are four Four and four are eight That's all you have on your business-like mind Two and two are four Four and four are eight How can you be so blind?