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The boys are marching; cheer up, comrades, they will come. And beneath the stars and bars we shall breathe the air again of free men in our own beloved home. In the battle front we stood when their fiercest charge they made, and our soldiers by the thousands sank to die; but before they reached our lines, they were driven back dismayed,
Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1784 by Robert Burns (1759–1796). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel " Common' Frae The Town ". This is a variant of the tune to which " Auld Lang Syne " is usually sung—the melodic shape is almost identical, the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder (German for "The boy's magic horn: old German songs") is a collection of German folk poems and songs edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. The book was published in three volumes, the first in 1806, followed by two more in 1808.
"The Boys of Barr na Sráide" is a well-known Irish song from a poem written by Irish poet Sigerson Clifford (1913–1985). It is named after a street (Irish: Barr na Sráide, meaning 'top of the street') in Cahersiveen in County Kerry, Ireland. Clifford was born in Cork city, though both his parents came from Kerry.
We Real Cool" is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry. The poem has been featured on broadsides, re-printed in literature textbooks and is widely studied in literature classes. It is cited as "one of the most celebrated examples of jazz poetry". [1] [2] [3]
Something for the Boys is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Produced by Mike Todd , the show opened on Broadway in 1943 and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical.
The Beach Boys, shown in 1962, are coming to the Benton Franklin Fair with founder Mike Love. Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer / Getty/A360. The band has had 36 hits on the U.S. Top 40, the most ...
The poem was originally published under the title "Ballad of the Hangman" in Masses and Mainstream magazine under the pseudonym "Jack Denoya", before later being "[r]evised and retitled". [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Its plot concerns a hangman who arrives in a town and executes the citizens one by one.