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"The Ballad of Boot Hill" was recorded in 1984 by country and western singer Johnny Western which appeared on his 1989 album Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on Bear Family Records. [7] In 2008, Mark van den Berg recorded the song for his collection Mark van den Berg Sings the Hits of Johnny Cash on the Continental Record Services label.
In the video game Fallout: New Vegas, Victor can say, “Next stop, Boot Hill” if provoked. Carl Perkins wrote in 1959 a song "The Ballad of Boot Hill". Johnny Cash recorded it for Columbia Records and it was released in the same year. [7] A Spaghetti Western named Boot Hill was released in 1969 and it featured Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. [8]
Boot Hill, a western starring Terence Hill; Boot Hill (role-playing game), a role-playing game from TSR, Inc. Boot Hill Bowl, a now defunct post-season college football game played in Dodge City, Kansas "Boot Hill", a song performed by artists such as Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan; Boot Hill, a mountain in Mare Tranquillitatis on the moon
Some sources (e.g., American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms) say that the phrase probably originally alluded to soldiers who died on active duty. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms says: "Die with your boots on was apparently first used in the late 19th century of deaths of cowboys and others in the American West who were killed in gun battles or ...
In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...
The Broomfield Hill was printed by a number of publishers of broadside ballads. There are seven in the Bodleian Broadside collection, all fairly similar, with an earliest possible date of 1711. [5] Child included six versions, five of them Scottish and one from an English broadside from the collection compiled by Francis Douce. [6]
"The Ballad of Aidan McAnespie" – song about a young Catholic man, shot by a British soldier while walking to a Gaelic football match, at Aughnacloy border checkpoint in County Tyrone. [47] "The Ballad of Billy Reid" – song recorded by the Wolfe Tones, Shebeen, and others, about Provisional IRA member Billy Reid (killed in May 1971). [48]
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