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Hoist the Colours In its opening rendition, it is sung by a young boy and eventually by a larger chorus. A lengthy suite arrangement of the theme also makes up the end credits in the film, which is not featured on the soundtrack, but an altered version was released on the Soundtrack Treasures Collection CD on a track called Hoist the Colours ...
Fiddler's Green is also mentioned in the extended version of the song "Hoist the Colors" from the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Friends of Fiddler's Green is a folk music group form Canada, founded in 1971. Fiddler's Green is an outdoor amphitheatre in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
I've seen these lyrics posted many times all around the internet, as well as on a few Wikipedia pages (see Fiddlers Green), so I'm going to post the lyrics on this pasge- I doubt this is a copyriight violation given the incredibly easy availability anyone with a keyboard can locate the lyrics online (just google "hoist the colours high lyrics ...
The word "hoist" here is the past participle of the now-archaic verb hoise (since Shakespeare's time, hoist has become the present tense of the verb, with hoisted the past participle), and carries the meaning "to lift and remove". [18]
The ancient Greeks classified colors by whether they were light or dark, rather than by their hue. The Greek word for dark blue, kyaneos, could also mean dark green, violet, black or brown. The ancient Greek word for a light blue, glaukos, also could mean light green, grey, or yellow. [17] The Greeks imported indigo dye from India, calling it ...
Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]
Charles’ Trooping the Colour takes place this year on Saturday, June 17. While the event celebrates the birth of Charles, 74, he won’t celebrate his actual birthday until November 14.
While the colours were taken from the official banner of the association, the flag's design may have been influenced by the then unofficial Irish tricolour and or a local design (red at the hoist, white in the centre and green on the fly tricolour) which was used by the Newfoundland Natives' Society (NNS) from the mid 1800s. The NNS flag had ...