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Lyrics usually include the line (or a slight variation): "The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies; she brings us glad tidings, and she tells us no lies." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer , "The Cuckoo" is an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires — to gamble, to win, to ...
All the Pretty Little Horses" (also known as "Hush-a-bye") is a traditional lullaby from the United States. It has inspired dozens of recordings and adaptations, as well as the title of Cormac McCarthy's 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses. [citation needed]
"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by F.A Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian girl's loss of her sweetheart who has died in ...
All The Pretty Little Horses 'All the Pretty Horses' or 'Hush-a-bye' United States: 1903 [9] [b] Early version by Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874–1941), a teacher from Alabama and daughter of Robert B. Lindsay. Arthur o' Bower: United Kingdom 1805 [10] Evidence of a letter by William Wordsworth. A Wise Old Owl
The Queen Was in the Parlour, Eating Bread and Honey, by Valentine Cameron Prinsep.. The rhyme's origins are uncertain. References have been inferred in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c. 1602), (Twelfth Night 2.3/32–33), where Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: "Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song" and in Beaumont and Fletcher's 1614 play Bonduca, which contains the line "Whoa ...
But even the most relentless of birds can only take so much." His untimely death was mourned on X by pop star Dua Lipa, a long unrequited love for the owl. "Til’ death duo part," Lipa wrote on ...
A bird that abandons, Pretty little heaven, its first nest, If he finds it occupied, Pretty little heaven, (it is) well deserved. (Refrain) That beauty mark that you have, Pretty little heaven, beside your mouth, Do not give it to anyone, Pretty little heaven, for it's my turn. (Refrain) An arrow in the air Pretty little heaven, Cupid shot. If ...
You Are My Little Bird is an album by Elizabeth Mitchell, released in 2006 by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The album presents a collection of folk songs for children. The album presents a collection of folk songs for children.