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Some variants have "juniper tree" or "June apple tree" rather than "pear tree", which is likely a mishearing of "partridge in a pear tree". The 1780 version has "four colly birds"—colly being a regional English expression for "coal-black" (the name of the collie dog breed may come from this word).
And a golden pear. The King of Spain's daughter Came to visit me, And all for the sake Of my little nut tree. Her dress was made of crimson, Jet black was her hair, She asked me for my nutmeg And my golden pear. I said, "So fair a princess Never did I see, I'll give you all the fruit From my little nut tree." [1]
Black Pear Tree is an EP by The Mountain Goats and Kaki King, released in 2008 as a vinyl only and tour only EP. [1] Track 6's title is a reference to Super Mario Bros.
"Black" is a song by American rock band Pearl Jam. The song is the fifth track on their 1991 debut album, Ten, and features lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music written by guitarist Stone Gossard. After Ten experienced major success in 1992, Pearl Jam's record label Epic Records urged the group to release the song as a single. The ...
Songs for Pierre Chuvin is the eighteenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 10, 2020. [1] It is the first album since 2002's All Hail West Texas to feature only the band's frontman, John Darnielle, as well as the first since then to be recorded entirely on a boombox.
1. Now in the bog there was a tree, A rare tree, a rattlin' tree, The tree in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. (CHORUS) 2. And on that tree there was a branch, A rare branch, a rattlin' branch, The branch on the tree, and the tree in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o. (CHORUS)
The band's name is a reference to the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song "Yellow Coat". [3] Darnielle released his first recording as the Mountain Goats (Taboo VI: The Homecoming, on Shrimper Records) in 1991. [3]
The album is mostly John Darnielle and his acoustic guitar, but it has sparse auxiliary instrumentation as well.Most of the songs were recorded on John's Panasonic RX-FT500 boom box, but due to either mechanical failure or desire for clearer sound quality, he used a 4-track recording machine for some tracks.