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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  3. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on chapter 58) [155] "No Love Lost" An Ideal for Living: Joy Division: The House of Dolls: Ka-tzetnik 135633 [156] "November Rain" Use Your Illusion I: Guns N' Roses "Without You" Del James: The video for "November Rain" is loosely based on the short story ...

  4. A Red, Red Rose - Wikipedia

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    A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "(Oh) My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem. Many composers have set Burns' lyric to music, but it gained worldwide popularity set to the traditional tune "Low Down in the Broom"

  5. Roses of Picardy - Wikipedia

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    Sheet music from c. 1920 "Roses of Picardy" is a popular British song with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly and music by Haydn Wood.Published in London in 1916 by Chappell & Co, it was one of the most famous songs of the First World War and has been recorded frequently up to the present day.

  6. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894. I Love Little Pussy 'I Love Little Kitty' United Kingdom 1830 [52] The poem is first recorded in The Child's Song Book published in 1830. It's Raining, It's Pouring: United States 1912 [53]

  7. I Love You, California - Wikipedia

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    I love your red-wood forests – love your fields of yellow grain. I love your summer breezes and I love your winter rain. I love you, land of flowers; land of honey, fruit and wine. I love you, California; you have won this heart of mine. III. I love your old gray Missions – love your vineyards stretching far.

  8. Legend (Tchaikovsky) - Wikipedia

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    Legend" (Russian: Легенда, Legenda), Op. 54, No. 5 (also known as "The Crown of Roses" in some English-language sources) [1] is a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally written in 1883 as a song for solo voice and piano, it was subsequently arranged by Tchaikovsky for solo voice and orchestra (1884), and then for ...

  9. Róisín Dubh (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Róisín Dubh" (Irish: [ˈɾˠoːʃiːnʲ ˈd̪ˠʊw]; "Dark Rosaleen" or "Little Dark Rose") is one of Ireland's most famous political songs. It is based on an older love-lyric which referred to the poet's beloved rather than, as here, being a metaphor for Ireland. The intimate tone of the original carries over into the political song.