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The song is influenced by gospel music, combining images of religious redemption with implied literal release from prison. David Yaffe described the song as a song about redeemed prisoners. [ 3 ] The song describes life behind a wall, hearing a man who "swears he's not to blame" and is "crying out that he was framed".
As "We Shall Not Be Moved" the song gained popularity as a protest and union song of the Civil rights movement. [2]The song became popular in the Swedish anti-nuclear and peace movements in the late 1970s, in a Swedish translation by Roland von Malmborg, "Aldrig ger vi upp" ('Never shall we give up').
Chord Bible is the generic name given to a variety of musical theory publications featuring a large number of chord diagrams for fretted stringed instruments. The subject matter applies exclusively to chordophones, stringed musical instruments capable of playing more than one note at a time.
Hank Williams. One of the most famous incarcerations in country music history occurred on August 17, 1952. Hank Williams was arrested for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Alexander ...
The song's popularity has reached far beyond the band's; CCLI places the song among the 30 most-sung worship songs in the United States [1] and has been called a "modern worship classic". [2] According to Martin Smith, the author of the song: "That song just wrote itself in about five minutes. The same chords the whole way through the song.
Cross Rhythms reviewer Tony Cummings gave the album nine stars out of ten, describing it as "surely the most ambitious various artists album to be released for years." [4] Kevin Garrett of Christianity Today said "One might find it a challenge to produce a single piece of art encompassing the expansive tale of hope for humanity, from Creation to Christ to the Second Coming.
Biblical Songs (Czech: Biblické písně) is a song cycle which consists of musical settings by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák of ten texts, selected by him, from the Book of Psalms. It was originally composed for low voice and piano (1894, Op. 99, B. 185). The first five songs were later orchestrated by the composer (1895, B. 189).
The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31: