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"The Horse" is an instrumental song by Cliff Nobles and Company. It was released as the B-side of the single "Love Is All Right" and is simply an instrumental version of that song. Background
In the 1934 collection American Ballads and Folk Songs, ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax give a version titled "All the Pretty Little Horses" and ending: 'Way down yonder / In de medder / There's a po' lil lambie, / De bees an' de butterflies / Peckin' out its eyes, / De po' lil thing cried, "Mammy!"' [5] The Lomaxes quote Scarborough as ...
The song was covered by Daryl Braithwaite on his 1990 album Rise.It was released as a single on 28 January 1991 and reached No. 1 on the Australian Singles Chart in May. [1] [2] "The Horses" has been certified ten-times platinum in Australia by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). [3]
The song has received criticism for its lyrics, including "The heat was hot"; "There were plants, and birds, and rocks, and things"; and "'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain." [18] According to an anecdote from Robert Christgau, Randy Newman dismissed "A Horse with No Name" as a "song about a kid who thinks he's taken acid". [19] [20]
Kon' (Horse; Russian: Конь) is a popular Russian song, first performed by the pop band Lyube in 1994. The music was written by Igor Matvienko, and the lyrics by his long-time co-author Alexander Shaganov. The song is extremely popular, performed by many artists, and has acquired the status of a quasi-"folk" song, [1] performed at family ...
In both songs the title horse is the underdog in the race, up against a favored grey mare (usually called either "Griselda" or "Molly"), and although in most versions of Stewball the winning horse triumphs due to the stumbling of the lead horse, Skewball wins simply by being the faster horse in the end.
"Crazy Horses" is a song by the Osmonds, the title track from the album of the same name. It was released as the album's second single and reached number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 [2] and number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. [3] The song is the only hit record from the Osmonds to feature Jay Osmond as lead vocalist. It has since been covered ...
Its lyrics were based by Garvey on "transcendence over those who see the world as only earthly and finite", with the "horses" in the song representing "the five senses from Hindu philosophy". [2] Evan Sawdey of PopMatters wrote that "Goodbye Horses" has a "strangely entrancing thump" and "sad, tragicomic elements" in the lyrics, describing it ...