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At the end of the song, Gwen dies, and in one version of the piece, the writer talks about him mourning and that she is lying " 'neath the shades of the lonely ash grove". The tune might be much older, as a similar air appears in The Beggar's Opera by John Gay (1728), in the song "Cease Your Funning".
"Threnody for Sharon Tate", written by Freddie Hubbard and İlhan Mimaroğlu, from the 1971 album Sing Me a Song of Songmy "Lament for Booker", written by Horace Parlan in memory of Booker Ervin; In film and other music: "Threnody To Earth" by Dream Koala "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
In this Rising interview, the Toronto poet-turned-singer-songwriter talks about getting to the heart of his community’s grief, rage, and love on his upcoming debut project, When Smoke Rises.
"Go Tell Aunt Rhody" is an English language folk song of nineteenth-century American origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3346. The tune is older, dating to the 18th century. It originated as a gavotte in the 1752 opera Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [1] [2]
A teenage tragedy song is a style of sentimental ballad in popular music that peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lamenting teenage death scenarios in melodramatic fashion, these songs were variously sung from the viewpoint of the dead person's romantic interest, another witness to the tragedy, or the dead or dying person.
34. “To the world you may have just been one person, but to one person you may have been the world.” — Dr. Seuss 35. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas ...
Other songs relate to the cult of the dead and are nearly always depicted with harps from which the title "Harper's Songs" is derived. [5] Since the songs are reflections on death, rather than being part of the rituals associated with burial, freer expression of thoughts is encountered in these texts.
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