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Tams recorded a variation of the above lyrics for Over the Hills & Far Away: The Music of Sharpe, the companion CD to the television film series. The song was also recorded by New Zealand singer Will Martin on his debut 2008 album New World. The lyrics for that version go as follows. (Chorus lyrics located at bottom of page)
The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag. [10] An article published in the Uvalde, Texas, Uvalde Leader-News in 1928 suggests that the origin of the song was the small town of Lohn, Texas. The article states that the song was originally about the Lohn Prairie, and was later ...
"Keep the Home-Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home)" is a British patriotic First World War song composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello with words by Lena Guilbert Ford (whose middle name was sometimes printed as "Gilbert"). [1] The song was published first as "'Till the Boys Come Home" on 8 October 1914 by Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew Ltd. in ...
According to engineer Jack Rouben, the foundation of the song started with its bassline: "[The track] was a musical idea that Charlie came up with on the Minimoog that turned into a groove, then a completed arrangement, and then they put the lyrics at the very end...This song was built upon that one repeating bass track, and that was the jam that blossomed into a whole complete song."
The alkali desert was burning and bare, And Isaac's soul shrank from the death that lurked there. "Dear old Pike County, I'll go back to you"--Says Betsy, "You'll go by yourself if you do!" Refrain They soon reached the desert, where Betsy gave out, And down in the sand she lay rolling about. Ike in great wonder looked on in surprise,
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The first performance of the song was at a 1982 concert in Carnegie Hall. [1]The song was written in 1982 [2] by group member Peter Yarrow as a pacifist response to the 1982 Lebanon War, an intention was reflected in the lyrics "Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand, Light one candle for the wisdom to know when the peacemaker's time is at hand."
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