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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  3. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S. Eliot: Adapts elements of the T. S. Eliot poem. [36] "Ahab" The Graduate: MC Lars: Moby-Dick: Herman Melville: Retells the story of Moby-Dick from the perspective of Captain Ahab. [37] "Alice" Every Trick in the Book: Ice Nine Kills: Go Ask Alice: Beatrice Sparks [38] [39] "All I Wanna Do" Tuesday ...

  4. We Shall Overcome - Wikipedia

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    "I'll Overcome Some Day" was a hymn or gospel music composition by the Reverend Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia that was first published in 1901. [2] A noted minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Tindley was the author of approximately 50 gospel hymns, of which "We'll Understand It By and By" and "Stand By Me" are among the best known.

  5. Protest song - Wikipedia

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    Bob Dylan songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s.. A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for protest and social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events).

  6. How an 80-year-old Judy Garland song became a Pride anthem

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    Judy Garland’s performance of “The Trolley Song,” a second-act standout from the 1944 movie musical “Meet Me in St. Louis,” has found new life online nearly 80 years later as an unlikely ...

  7. The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song was then recorded at Columbia Studios in New York on October 23 and 24; [6] the latter session yielding the version that became the title song of Dylan's third album. [7] The a-in the song title is an archaic intensifying prefix, as in the British songs "A-Hunting We Will Go" and "Here We Come a-Wassailing", from the 18th and 19th century.

  8. 45 Graduation Songs to Add to Your Playlist, from ... - AOL

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    41. “Live Your Life” by T.I. feat. Rihanna. Release year: 2008. Standout lyrics: You’re gonna be a shining star, In fancy clothes and fancy cars / And then you’ll see, you’re gonna go ...

  9. How The Killers made Mr Brightside, one of the most ... - AOL

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    Which is why “Mr Brightside”, a 20-year-old song, has become the student sing-along du jour, as “Losing My Religion” was to 1991, “Common People” was to 1995 and, well, “Mr ...