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See media help. " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " is an African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns. Originating in early African-American musical traditions, the song was probably composed in the late 1860s by Wallace Willis and his daughter Minerva Willis, both Choctaw freedmen. Performances by the Hampton Singers and ...
Andrew Lang. About 1876, the Scottish poet and folklorist Andrew Lang wrote a poem based on the song titled "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond". [7][8] The title sometimes has the date "1746" appended [9][10] —the year of the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's rebellion and the hanging of some of his captured supporters. Lang's poem begins.
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. " Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen " is an African-American spiritual song that originated during the period of slavery but was not published until 1867. The song is well known and many cover versions of it have been recorded by artists such as Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Paul ...
The grandfather explains that he had intended to meet her at a certain tree: "If you get there before I do, don't give up on me / I'll meet you when my chores are through, I don't know how long I'll be / But I'm not gonna let you down, darling, wait and see / And between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you / Love, me.
Walk Through This World with Me (song) " Walk Through This World with Me " is a song written by Sandy Seamons and Kaye Savage and recorded by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in January 1967 as the title track of his twenty-fourth album. The single was George Jones' fifty-seventh release on the country chart and his ...
1910 (114 years ago) (1910) " If— " is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal ...
I Can't Get You Off of My Mind; I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) I Could Never Be Ashamed of You; I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes) (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle (co-written with Jimmie Davis) I Hope You Shed a Million Tears (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams)
Lyrics. The 1913 lyrics by Frederic E. Weatherly: [5] Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,