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"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song, of American origin, often sung in a round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236. Lyrics
"Up and Down This World Goes Round", three voice round by Matthew Locke. [1] Play ⓘ. A round (also called a perpetual canon [canon perpetuus], round about or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which multiple voices sing exactly the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different ...
"18 and Life" is a song by American heavy metal band Skid Row. It was released in June 1989 as the second single from their self-titled debut album.The power ballad [2] is the band's biggest hit, reaching No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
The six songs of Berlioz's Les nuits d'été (1841), first published with piano accompaniment but later orchestrated, is a notable early example of the French song cycle. [14] French cycles reached a pinnacle in Fauré's La bonne chanson (Verlaine) of the early 1890s, La chanson d'Ève, premiered complete in 1910, and L'horizon chimérique (1921).
Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, [1] sexual innuendos. This trope goes back to early dirty blues recordings, enjoyed huge commercial success in the 1920s and 1930s, [ 1 ] and is used from time to time in modern American blues and blues rock .
Come, listen, all you girls and boys, I'm just from Tuckahoe; I'm going to sing a little song, My name's Jim Crow. CHORUS: Wheel about, and turn about, and do just so; Every time I wheel about, I jump Jim Crow. I went down to the river, I didn't mean to stay, But there I saw so many girls, I couldn't get away.
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The melody of this song, out of "God Save Ireland" was used as the tune for a novelty record fan-anthem, for the 1978 world cup released as the song Ally's Tartan Army. Other It was the melody of "Tokoshie no Sachi"(永遠の幸, Eternal Happiness), the alma mater of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University ) in Japan.