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In early 1942, she recorded the song in English, the lyrics translated by Norman Baillie-Stewart, a former British army officer working for German propaganda. [ 5 ] Songwriter Tommie Connor also wrote English lyrics with the title "Lily of the Lamplight" in 1944. [ 6 ]
De English confusion to Popery drink. (Refrain) And, by my shoul, de mash house pull down, While dey were swearing de Mayor of de town. (Refrain) Oh, fait and be, I'll mauke de decree, And swar by de Chancellor's modesty; (Refrain) Dat I no longer in English will stay, For be Goad, dey will hang us out of de way. (Refrain)
Flos Campi: Suite for Solo Viola, Small Chorus, and Small Orchestra is a composition by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, completed in 1925. Its title is Latin for "flower of the field." It is neither a concerto nor a choral piece, although it prominently features the viola and a wordless choir.
John Legend has a special place in his heart for one specific song.. While chatting with reporters in the press room at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, the singer, 46, opened up ...
The only other deviation from the standard lyrics was in verse 5 where "symbols" was replaced with "cymbals" to which campers would bang drink trays together to mimic cymbals. "Red Fly the Banners, O" is a Marxist-Leninist version of the song. There is a reference to "the lily-white boy" in W. H. Auden's poem "As I Walked Out One Evening".
The term "lily" has in the past been applied to numerous flowering plants, often with only superficial resemblance to the true lily, including water lily, fire lily, lily of the Nile, calla lily, trout lily, kaffir lily, cobra lily, lily of the valley, daylily, ginger lily, Amazon lily, leek lily, Peruvian lily, and others. All English ...
Lilium is the plant genus of "true lilies". Lilium may also refer to: the Latin term for the fleur-de-lis emblem; Lilium (constellation), a constellation defined by Augustin Royer in 1679; 1092 Lilium, a minor planet, discovered in 1924; Lilium (band), a French-American band; Lilium, the opening theme song from the anime Elfen Lied
Cecil Sharp, 1916. In Thomas Dunham Whitaker's History of the Parish of Whalley, it is claimed that around the year 1689, a woman named Mrs. Fleetwood Habergam “undone by the extravagance, and disgraced by the vices of her husband,” wrote of her woes in the symbolism of flowers; however, the folklorist Cecil Sharp doubted this claim. [2]