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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  3. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song) Traum durch die Dämmerung; Trees (poem) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; Two Songs, 1916; Two Songs, 1917–18; Two Songs, 1920; Two Songs, 1928

  4. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie - Wikipedia

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    The 20 poems in the first section, "Where Love is a Scream of Anguish", center on love. Many of the poems in this section and the next are structured like blues and jazz music, and have universal themes of love and loss. The eighteen poems in the second section, "Just Before the World Ends", focus on the experience of the survival of African ...

  5. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four; Bowie had also hoped to produce a televised musical based on the book. [31] "2112" 2112: Rush: Anthem: Ayn Rand: Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes. [32] "Abigail" Creatures: Motionless in White: The ...

  6. Anacreon - Wikipedia

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    Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Ionic dialect. Like all early lyric poetry, it was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love, infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals, and the observations of everyday people and life.

  7. America, Why I Love Her - Wikipedia

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    On the album, Wayne reads Mitchum's poetry with backing from an orchestra and choir. Billy Liebert arranged and conducted the orchestra and also produced the album. [3] In an interview upon the album's release, Wayne explained his attraction to the material: "John Mitchum thinks like I think and writes like I wish I could". [3]

  8. Talk:List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    This article is within the scope of WikiProject Poetry, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of poetry on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Poetry Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry Template:WikiProject Poetry Poetry articles: Low

  9. Just So Songs - Wikipedia

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    Both had a number of arrangements produced several years later by the composer for various choral and part-song configurations. Late in his life, German agreed to have Just So Songs arranged for full chorus and orchestra, but he had retired from composing so he chose the younger composer John West to orchestrate and arrange. West, however, died ...