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Found between the songs "The Trooper" and "Still Life", on Piece of Mind. It is an inebriated Nicko McBrain (the drummer) doing his "famous" impression of Idi Amin. It translates to the following: "'What ho,' said the monster with the three heads, 'don't meddle with things you don't understand.'" [45] [48]
"Mondegreen" is a song by Yeasayer on their 2010 album, Odd Blood. The lyrics are intentionally obscure (for instance, "Everybody sugar in my bed" and "Perhaps the pollen in the air turns us into a stapler") and spoken hastily to encourage the mondegreen effect. [75] Anguish Languish is an ersatz language created by Howard L. Chace.
The central melody of "Simple Gifts" is used in the 2009 song The Sound Above My Hair by German electronic music group Scooter, which utilises bagpipes in the composition. The 2008 song " The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) " by Weezer makes extensive use of the "Simple Gifts" melody throughout.
This song was also performed by Sonny and Cher and Elton John. Geraldo Pino used the phrase in the song "Shake Hands." In the song "Hey You" (performed and written by the band Pink Floyd), a similar term with the same meaning, "Together we stand, divided we fall," is used as the final lyrics. Tupac Shakur used the line "united we stand, divided ...
The lyrics refer to a number of celebrities. Johnnie Cochran , a famous attorney who represented (amongst others) stars such as O. J. Simpson , who was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown , is mentioned in the lines "Well did you know if you were famous you could kill your wife / and there's no such thing as 25 to life / as long as ...
The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. The song's lyrics, which in its original version contain twelve lines, feature a conversation between a joker and a thief. The song has been subject to various interpretations; some reviewers have noted that it echoes lines in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5
"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. [1] The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Everything There Is a ...
Bragg thought the traditional English lyrics were archaic and unsingable (Scottish musician Dick Gaughan [72] and former Labour MP Tony Benn [73] disagreed), and composed a new set of lyrics. [74] The recording was released on his album The Internationale along with reworkings of other socialist songs.