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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four; Bowie had also hoped to produce a televised musical based on the book. [31] "2112" 2112: Rush: Anthem: Ayn Rand: Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes. [32] "Abigail" Creatures: Motionless in White: The ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song) Traum durch die Dämmerung; Trees (poem) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; Two Songs, 1916; Two Songs, 1917–18; Two Songs, 1920; Two Songs, 1928

  5. Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia

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    Kill Hannah's song "Scream", from their 2006 album Until There's Nothing Left of Us, includes the line, 'Enacting Sybil Vane in some tragic play'. Styx's song "Sing for the Day" references the titular character with the line, 'ageless and timeless as Dorian Gray'. William Control titled a track on their 2010 album Noir after the protagonist

  6. Kashmiri Song - Wikipedia

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    The song has led an unusually varied life particularly in the field of popular culture. Some of the places where the song/poem is mentioned or quoted are: The film The Sheik (1921) starring Rudolph Valentino, based on the 1919 novel The Sheik by E. M. Hull. Ford Madox Ford's novel Parade's End (1924–1928).

  7. List of works based on Erlkönig - Wikipedia

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    The song contains quotes from the poem among its lyrics. The Romanian rock band Compact has a song "Jocul ielelor". The song is inspired by the poem. Catalan singer-songwriter Roger Mas adapted the poem in his song "El rei dels verns" (the alder king), featured in the 2015 album Irredempt. [12]

  8. Paradise Lost in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    German power metal band Blind Guardian based the song "Control the Divine" from the album At the Edge of Time on the poem. The band Hollywood Undead based a song on the poem, "Paradise Lost", as it is member Johnny 3 Tears's favorite poem/book. Their song "S.C.A.V.A." also appears to be based on the poem.

  9. The Unicorn (song) - Wikipedia

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    The lyrics to the song also appear, printed as a poem, based on the biblical tale, Noah's Ark, in Shel Silverstein's book Where the Sidewalk Ends.In the original version of the song, the Irish Rovers speak half of the lyrics, as well as the part of the fourth chorus.