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"Sorrow" is a song by the English band Pink Floyd. Written by the band's singer and guitarist David Gilmour , it is the closing track on their thirteenth studio album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason , released in 1987.
The English band The Unthanks recorded a version of this song on their 2015 album Mount the Air, [16] and the song appeared in the BBC series Detectorists, and the 4th season of the HBO series True Detective. The American alternative rock band The Innocence Mission featured a song called "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy" on their 2003 album Befriended.
"Sorrow" is a song written by Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin, and performed by Bad Religion. It was the first single to be released from their twelfth studio album, The Process of Belief, which was released in 2002, although the single was first played in the fall of 2001 by the L.A. radio station KROQ.
"Sorrow" is a song first recorded by the McCoys in 1965 and released as the B-side to their cover of "Fever". It became a big hit in the United Kingdom in a version by the Merseys, reaching number 4 on the UK chart on 28 April 1966. [1] A version by David Bowie charted worldwide in 1973.
The song was first published in 1913 with the title "Farewell Song" in a six-song songbook by Dick Burnett, titled Songs Sung by R. D. Burnett—The Blind Man—Monticello, Kentucky. [2] There exists some uncertainty as to whether Dick Burnett is the original writer. In an interview he gave toward the end of his life, he was asked about the song:
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"Fountain of Sorrow" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. Released as the second single from his 1974 album Late for the Sky , at 6:42, it was the longest song on the album, and the longest song Browne had yet released (" For Everyman " was approximately 6:20).
Sorrow songs expressed the suffering and unjust treatment of enslaved African Americans during the period of slavery in the United States (1619–1865). The melodies and the lyrics conveyed sadness, and the words were "stunningly direct" about what it is to be enslaved.