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Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field "Little Boy Blue" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication.
1 Lyrics. 2 Origins and meaning. 3 References. ... "Little Boy Blue" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11318. Lyrics
"Boy Blue" is a song by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, taken from her second studio album True Colors (1986). The track was penned by Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, and Jeff Bova , with production by Lauper and Lennie Petze.
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It is a parody of the death of King William II, who was killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest (Hampshire) in 1100, and who was known as William Rufus, meaning "red". [ 9 ] The rhyme is connected with the fall of Robert Walpole 's government in 1742, since Robin is a diminutive form of Robert and the first printing is close to the ...
"Down in the Willow Garden" (Roud 446), also known as "Rose Connelly", [1] [2] is a traditional Appalachian murder ballad.It is written from the perspective of a man facing the gallows for the murder of his lover, to whom he gave poisoned wine, then stabbed, and threw in a river.
"The Vacant Chair" is a poem that was written following the death of John William Grout (July 25, 1843 – October 21, 1861). Grout was a soldier killed in the American Civil War during the Battle of Ball's Bluff. The poem, written by Henry S. Washburn was put to music by George Frederick Root and became a popular song of the post-Civil War era.
Several Appalachian musicians recorded the ballad; Jean Ritchie sang the Ritchie family version in 1946 with her sister (recorded by Mary Elizabeth Barnacle) [3] and in 1961 on the album Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition, [4] whilst Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1935), [5] Horton Barker (1941), [6] and Almeida Riddle (1972) [7] also had their traditional versions recorded.