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USA Freedom Kids at a 2019 performance Performance in 2019 2019 performance. USA Freedom Kids, sometimes referred to as USA Freedom Girls, are an American girl group known for performing their song "Freedom's Call" at a Donald Trump rally in Pensacola, Florida in January 2016, during his presidential campaign. [2]
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
The song is a patriotic hymn to feminism and the right of American women to receive the same professional and social recognition as men; the song was regarded as a patriotic and propaganda piece by Ronald Reagan's then newly elected conservative government and is often used as a soundtrack for feminist parades of black women's rights. [8] [9] [10]
"American Girls" is a single by American rock band Counting Crows. It is the second track on their fourth studio album, Hard Candy (2002), and features Sheryl Crow on backing vocals. The song was released on May 13, 2002, and reached number one on the US Billboard Triple-A chart.
These soldiers were giving up their freedom and lives to make sure others could stay free. I wrote the song to support those soldiers." [1] In a 2010 interview with American Songwriter, Haggard called the song a "character study", his 1969 self being the character: "It was the photograph that I took of the way things looked through the eyes of ...
The song is commonly thought to be of African-American origin. [1] An early published version is in "A White Dove", [2] a 1903 story for kindergarteners by Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874–1941), a teacher from Alabama and daughter of Robert B. Lindsay. [3] In the story, "a little girl" sings to "her baby brother" what is footnoted as "an old ...
"Beautiful Girls" is the debut single by American singer Sean Kingston from his 2007 eponymous debut album; it was first released in 2007, when Kingston was 17 and is considered his "signature song". The song is about a boy who feels "suicidal" (a radio edit changes this to "in denial") over the prospect of dating a "beautiful girl" only to ...
"Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" is an American bawdy song. The formula is a descending scale: "Rich girl [does something,] Poor girl [does something else], my girl don't [do whatever the other two do, usually with comic effect.]. The twentieth century versions are possibly the result of merging a minstrel song with "Coming Round the Mountain".