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Cross in the Mountains, also known as the Tetschen Altar, is an oil painting by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich designed as an altarpiece. Among Friedrich's first major works, the 1808 painting marked an important break with the conventions of landscape painting [ 2 ] by including Christian iconography .
"Sixteen Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. [2] Travis first recorded the song at the Radio Recorders Studio B in Hollywood, California, on August 8, 1946.
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We sang this song and marched along with Slattery's Mounted Fut! Alternative lyrics for the chorus are: And down from the mountains came the squadrons and platoons, Four-and-twenty fighting men and a couple of stout gossoons, When going into action held each musket by the butt, We sang a song as we marched along with Slattery's Mounted Foot!
In 1900, an abridged version in two stanzas by Otto Frömmel (1873–1940) became a nursery song for children to sing in kindergarten. Today, a single-verse form is widely used. [1] The melody of "Hänschen klein" is used in "Lightly Row", a Mother Goose rhyme. The melody is used in the war movie Cross of Iron (1977). [2]
The first portion is a translation from Chinese to English, done by Ōki, of Shan'ge, a collection of Feng Menglong's songs. [4] The Chinese original text is alongside the English translation. [8] The basis of this English translation is Ōki's previous Japanese translation. [3] Tomoyuki Tanaka made a draft, and Mary Wardle did revisions. [9]
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"Muss i denn" (German for "must I, then") is a German folk-style song in the Swabian German dialect that has passed into tradition. The present form dates back to 1827, when it was written and made public by Friedrich Silcher.