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Listen to the Mocking Bird. "Listen to the Mocking Bird" (1855) is an American popular song of the mid-19th century. Its lyrics were composed by Septimus Winner under the pseudonym "Alice Hawthorne", and its music was by Richard Milburn. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It relates the story of a singer dreaming of his sweetheart, now dead and buried, and a ...
Old Joe Clark. " Old Joe Clark " is a US folk song, a mountain ballad that was popular among soldiers from eastern Kentucky during World War I and afterwards. [1] Its lyrics refer to a real person named Joseph Clark, a Kentucky mountaineer who was born in 1839 and murdered in 1885. [1] [2] The "playful and sometimes outlandish verses" have led ...
Origins and meaning. "Three Blinde Mice" (1609). [ 3] Play ⓘ. A version of this rhyme, together with music (in a minor key), was published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (1609). [ 3] The editor of the book, and possible author of the rhyme, [ 4] was Thomas Ravenscroft. [ 1] The original lyrics are: Three Blinde Mice,
If You Could Read My Mind. " If You Could Read My Mind " is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Lightfoot wrote the lyrics while he was reflecting on his own divorce. It reached No. 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on international release in 1971. [ 1]
Book cover by Frank Green, 1869. It is generally thought that this song was adapted, possibly by Frank J. Green in 1869, as "Ten Little Niggers", though it is possible that the influence was the other way around, with "Ten Little Niggers" being a close reflection of the text that became "Ten Little Indians".
Old MacDonald Had a Farm. " Old MacDonald Had a Farm " (sometimes shortened to Old MacDonald) is a traditional children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer and the various animals he keeps. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. For example, if the verse uses a cow as the animal, then "moo" would be ...
Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877. Artwork by Walter Crane. " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush " (also titled " Mulberry Bush " or " This Is the Way ") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882.
United States. Preceded by. A Dance with Dragons. Followed by. A Dream of Spring. (planned) The Winds of Winter is the forthcoming sixth novel in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American writer George R. R. Martin. The manuscript is expected to be over 1,500 pages in length. [ 1]