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Bob Chilcott's "London Bells", the third movement of his Songs and Cries of London Town (2001) is a setting for choir of the song's version from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. [ 13 ] Benjamin Till composed music based upon the nursery rhyme which was performed in 2009 at St Mary-le-Bow , London, to commemorate 150 years of the Palace of ...
Wesley's original hymn began with the opening line "Hark how all the Welkin rings". This was changed to the familiar "Hark! the Herald Angels sing" by George Whitefield in his 1754 Collection of Hymns for Social Worship. [5] A second change was made in the 1782 publication of the Tate and Brady New Version of the Psalms of David.
The dogs do bark, and children hark, as we go jingling by. Over the river, and through the wood, to have a first-rate play. Hear the bells ring, "Ting-a-ling-ding!", Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day! Over the river, and through the wood, no matter for winds that blow; Or if we get the sleigh upset into a bank of snow Over the river, and through the ...
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
A German version of the song was composed on verses of Martell under the title "Des Seemanns Los" (The Sailor's Fate). The song has been recorded by J. W. Myers (1902), Frank Stanley (1907), Gus Reed (Edison Records, 1908), Wilfred Glenn (1913), Al Jolson (1916), Charles Laird (1920), The Mills Brothers (1939), Coleman Hawkins (1940), Pete Daily's Chicagoans (1952), Firehouse Five Plus Two ...
Hark, from the Tomb" is a hymn sung as an American folk and blues song in the United States. The words may have first been put down by English hymn writer Isaac Watts . [ 1 ] It was sung in America by the 19th century or earlier, as a Kentucky minister described it in a memoir published 1888 as being sung by the line leader of a slave coffle in ...
Some sources give the rhyme a second verse, whose first two lines are "Some gave them white bread / Some gave them brown". [6] It is unclear why they associate the lines with "Hark Hark", because most sources give them as part of "The Lion and the Unicorn" (a nursery rhyme that is also included in the Roud Folk Song Index, as entry 20,170). [7]
"Jingle Bells Batman Smells" "London Bridge Is Falling Down" "London's Burning" "Michael Finnegan" "Miss Susie" "My Ding-a-Ling" "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" "On Top of Old Smokey" "Fast Food Song" (a song using the names of several fast food franchises) "Popeye the Sailor Man" (theme song from the 20th-century ...