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I wish, I wish he'd go away! When I came home last night at three, The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall, I couldn't see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who wasn't there He wasn't there ...
They journey into the night, and at this point They began to hum softly, as hobbits have a way of doing as they walk along, especially when they are drawing near to home at night. With most hobbits it is a supper-song or a bed-song; but these hobbits hummed a walking-song (though not, of course, without any mention of supper and bed). [T 2] [1]
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" is a 1966 novelty record written and performed by Jerry Samuels (billed as Napoleon XIV), and released on Warner Bros. Records. The song became an instant success in the United States, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 popular music singles chart on August 13, [ 3 ] No. 1 on the Cash Box Top ...
The song is credited to the arrangers, Eaton Faning and John Liptrot Hatton. [37] British composer Florence Margaret Spencer Palmer published Variations on Barbara Allen for piano in 1923. [38] Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. Versions of the song were recorded in the 1950s and '60s by folk revivalists, including Pete Seeger. Eddy Arnold recorded and ...
The words of the labor song "The Ballad of Bloody Thursday" – inspired by a deadly clash between strikers and police during the 1934 San Francisco longshoremen's strike – also follow the "Streets of Laredo" pattern and tune. As for "The Cowboy's Lament/Streets of Laredo" itself, Austin E. and Alta S. Fife in Songs of the Cowboys (1966) say
It was the first song the band wrote with vocalist Sammy Hagar. [5] [6] [7] It peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart, [8] and reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. [9]
A London alley contemporary with the song - Boundary Street 1890. The song is full of working class cockney rhyming slang and idiomatic phrasing.. The song tells the story of Bill and his wife who, with a lodger, live down an alleyway off the street (which were usually passages lined with crowded tenements), near the Old Kent Road, one of the poorest districts in London.
Her parents, they slight me, for my want of gear; So adieu to you, Molly, since you are not here. I dreamed last night that my true love came in. So softly she came that her feet made no din. She stepped up to me, and this she did say: "It will not be long, love, till our wedding day…" The remaining two verses are quite different.