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"There Was a Jolly Miller Once" is a traditional folk song (Roud #503) from the Chester area in northwest England. It is often titled "The Miller of the Dee" or "The Jolly Miller". The song was originally part of Isaac Bickerstaffe's play, Love in a Village (1762). Subsequently, other versions of Bickerstaffe's original song were made by ...
Jolly Roving Tar is a traditional Newfoundland folk song. In its 19th-century version, the song relates the story of Susan, lamenting the wanderings of her beloved "tar", or sailor, William, who is at sea, and deciding to follow him in her father's boat. The title is also applied to the folk song* "Get up, Jack!
"Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" is a Christmas song that originated with a poem by Emily Huntington Miller (1833–1913), published as "Lilly's Secret" in The Little Corporal Magazine in December 1865. The song's lyrics have also been attributed to Benjamin Hanby, who wrote a similar song in the 1860s, Up on the Housetop. However, the lyrics now in ...
The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is a campfire song sung to the tune of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, [1] which, in turn, got its melody from the French tune Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre (Marlborough is going to war). The public domain lyrics are of unknown origin. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his 1961 album 101 Gang Songs.
"The ABC Song" was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. The melody is from a 1761 French music book and is also used in other nursery rhymes like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", while the author of the lyrics is unknown. Songs set to the same melody are also used to teach the alphabets of other languages.
There are many different versions of the song. These lyrics are those provided by Robert Bell in his 1857 Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England: [1] When first I went a-waggoning, a-waggoning did go, I filled my parents’ hearts full of sorrow, grief, and woe. And many are the hardships that I have since gone through.
Don Arnold/TAS24/Getty Images Taylor Swift has fans (and Us Weekly staffers) busy with the release of 31 songs across two versions of her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. Swift ...
The earliest complete text is a broadside in the Bodleian Library, dated 1804, "The Miller Weaver and Little Tailor". [1] It is also known as "In Good King Arthur's Days