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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.

  3. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    "Love and Death" Dream Harder: The Waterboys: Love and Death: William Butler Yeats [138] "Love and Destroy" Franz Ferdinand: The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov [139] "Lucy" Liberation: The Divine Comedy: The Lucy poems: William Wordsworth [59] [140] "The Machine Stops" Standing in the Light: Level 42 "The Machine Stops" E. M. Forster [5 ...

  4. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    T. Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song)

  5. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - Wikipedia

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    are somewhat similar to the poem "Chants Andalous" by Manuel Machado: "Life is a cigarette / Cinder, ash and fire / Some smoke it in a hurry / Others savour it". [2] The exhortation "Oh no, love, you're not alone" references the Jacques Brel song "You're Not Alone" ("Jef") that appeared in the musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living ...

  6. Category:Songs about nostalgia - Wikipedia

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    B. Back in the Day (Ahmad song) Back in the Day (Missy Elliott song) Back Then (CDB song) Back Then Right Now; Back to the 80s (song) Back When; Back When My Hair Was Short

  7. Funeral Blues - Wikipedia

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    In the play, the poem was put to music by the composer Benjamin Britten and read as a blues work. [2] Hedli Anderson, an English singer, was a lead performer in The Ascent of F6. [2] Auden decided to re-write several poems for Anderson to perform as cabaret songs, including "Funeral Blues", and was working on them as early as 1937. [3]

  8. The Ballad of Eskimo Nell - Wikipedia

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    The Ballad of Eskimo Nell" (Roud 10124) is a bawdy rhymed poem or song that recounts the tale of Deadeye Dick, his accomplice Mexican Pete and a woman they meet on their travels named Eskimo Nell. The ballad makes frequent use of body-related terminology, with humorous consequences.

  9. Category:Songs inspired by deaths - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Songs inspired by deaths" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.