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Aesop's fable of "The Swan and the Goose" incorporates the swan song legend as saving its life when it was caught by mistake instead of the goose but was recognized by its song. [3] There is a subsequent reference in Aeschylus' Agamemnon from 458 BCE. [1] In that play, Clytemnestra compares the dead Cassandra to a swan who has "sung her last ...
Bede's tomb in Durham Cathedral. Bede's Death Song is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede.It is, by far, the Old English poem that survives in the largest number of manuscripts — 35 [1] or 45 [2] (mostly later medieval manuscripts copied on the Continent).
The English band The Unthanks recorded a version of this song on their 2015 album Mount the Air, [16] and the song appeared in the BBC series Detectorists, and the 4th season of the HBO series True Detective. The American alternative rock band The Innocence Mission featured a song called "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy" on their 2003 album Befriended.
If your name be Barbara Allen. 'For death is printed in his face, And sorrow's in him dwelling, And you must come to my master dear, If your name be Barbara Allen.' 'If death be printed in his face, And sorrow's in him dwelling, Then little better shall he be For bonny Barbara Allen.' So slowly, slowly she got up, And so slowly she came to him,
Each story there is presented as if it were a separate book; this version also had two illustrations by Harrison Weir. In reality the story is a repetition of the Chambers narration in standard English, except that the dialect phrase "so she gaed , and she gaed, and she gaed" is retained and the cause of panic is mistranslated as "the clouds ...
A song by Welsh group Anweledig on their 2004 EP Byw is titled "Tikki Tikki Tembo" and tells some of the story. The 2010 song "Wildstyle Method" by Bassnectar says Tikki Tikki Tembo's full name during certain parts of the song. A variation of the tale was featured in an episode of Lamb Chop's Play-Along.
“as a father of 2, and a veteran, i was caught by surprise by the dialogue about life, meaning, and purpose, and this song playing,” another person wrote in the comments. “have not cried in ...
"Moral of the Story" is a song by American singer-songwriter Ashe, featured on her second EP Moral of the Story: Chapter 1 (2019) and her debut studio album Ashlyn (2021). The song gained popularity after it was featured in the Netflix teen rom-com film To All the Boys: P.S.