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"No, Sir, No" (Roud 146) is an English folk song describing a courtship. It has been collected from traditional singers in England and the USA, and in a bowdlerised version was taught to English schoolchildren in music lessons in the 1950s.
The phrase "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir" has been used in reference to an obsequious or craven subordinate. It is attested from 1910, and originally was common in the British Royal Navy. [13] The rhyme has often appeared in literature and popular culture. Rudyard Kipling used it as the title of an 1888 semi-autobiographical short ...
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.
The song's title is the name of a spaceship in the John Scalzi book The Collapsing Empire, often referred to as "the Yes, Sir". A French version entitled "Chacun son truc" (To Each His Own) was recorded by Maurice Chevalier in 1926 with completely new lyrics by Paul Briquet. [ 15 ] "
The song is about the struggle of World War II on the people of Great Britain. The song paraphrases parts of several of Prime Minister Winston Churchill 's famous speeches including " Never was so much owed by so many to so few ", " We shall fight on the beaches ", and " This was their finest hour ".
Read the lyric to the song and find out what they mean, and why "I'm working late cause I'm a singer" has gone viral. Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" has gone viral. Read the lyric to the song and ...
The duo consisted of brothers Darryl Ellis Gatlin and Don Ellis Gatlin. Their highest charting single, "No Sir," peaked at No. 58 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1992. Don Ellis wrote songs on Blake Shelton's first two albums, and later founded a second band called Savannah Jack. [1]
“The Voice” coach Reba McEntire revealed the origins of her go-to catchphrase goes back to the 1992 hit “Becky Got Back” by the American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot.