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The patriotic song "Yɛn Ara Asaase Ni" was written by Ephraim Amu and sung In the Ewe language.It was later translated into Twi and then English. [1] The title version translates into English as "This Is Our Own Native Land"; it evokes a message of nationalism, and each generation doing their best to build on the works of the previous generation.
The spider dance done with the song "In My Own Native Land/ Mon Konn Kongo Kon Mwen Vle" is another salute to Anansi. This song was added to the tradition in 1783 when the British, the new owners of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petit Martinique, banned drumming in the West Indies. Carriacou's inhabitants did not obey, and composed this song in protest.
The original lyrics [9] were composed on February 23, 1940, in Guthrie's room at the Hanover House hotel at 43rd St. and 6th Ave. (101 West 43rd St.) in New York. The line "This land was made for you and me" does not appear in the original manuscript at the end of each verse, but is implied by Guthrie's writing of those words at the top of the page and by his subsequent singing of the line ...
The title of the concert overture The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1867) by Hamish MacCunn is also taken from Canto 6 (stanza 2). Lord Peter Wimsey refers to the goblin page in Canto 6 ('The elvish page fell to the ground, And, shuddering, mutter’d, “Found! found! found!”') in Chapter III of Dorothy L.Sayers's Clouds of Witness (1926).
The song is made notable by the fact that it honors both Americans by birth and choice. The first chorus reads: This is my country Land of my birth This is my country Grandest on Earth. While the second chorus (sung on a repeat, as the introduction is usually not repeated) instead reads: This is my country Land of my choice This is my country
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The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
Harry Styles dropped a music video for his "Harry's House" hit "Satellite" on May 3. Here's what the lyrics behind the bop might mean.