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  2. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)

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    Thompson's identity as the author of the poem was for many years unknown, even to Carmichael; he had been handed the poem anonymously at an event at Indiana University, and the poem only noted the author as "J.B.". Carmichael noted J.B.'s name in the song's sheet music as the author of the poem that inspired the lyrics, and asked for help to ...

  3. Songs Without Words - Wikipedia

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    Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano works by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn written between 1829 and 1845. His sister, Fanny Mendelssohn , and other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre.

  4. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  5. Song without words - Wikipedia

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    "Song Without Words" may refer to: Songs Without Words (German: Lieder ohne Worte), a series of short, lyrical piano pieces by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. Song Without Words, a 1937 wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward

  6. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    Adriano Celentano's 1972 song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" is sung in gibberish that sounds as American English. Jack Black uses non-lexical vocables whilst singing as Tenacious D. "Da Da Da" by German group Trio uses the phrase "da da da" throughout the song. The chorus to the Simon and Garfunkel hit "The Boxer" contains the repeated phrase ...

  7. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song) Traum durch die Dämmerung; Trees (poem) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; Two Songs, 1916; Two Songs, 1917–18; Two Songs, 1920; Two Songs, 1928

  8. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two.

  9. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    A clear example of this can be found in Walt Whitman's poems, where he repeats certain phrases and uses commas to create both a rhythm and structure. Pattern and discipline are to be found in good free verse: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free verse its beauty. [40]