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"Mary Hamilton", or "The Fower Maries" ("The Four Marys"), is a common name for a well-known sixteenth-century ballad from Scotland based on an apparently fictional incident about a lady-in-waiting to a Queen of Scotland. It is Child Ballad 173 and Roud 79.
The song was first published by Osborn & Tuckwood in 1889, then by Ascherberg in 1892. It was re-published in 1907 as one of the Seven Lieder, with English and German words. The German translator, one unidentified Ed. Sachs, named the song "Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute", confusing the Stuart Mary, Queen of Scots with the Tudor Mary I of England.
"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron", a traditional English folk song written in the 19th century about a housewife carrying out one part of her linen chores each day of the week "Monday's Child", a traditional English rhyme mentioning the days of the week; Solomon Grundy (character), DC Comics character named after the rhyme
The Norse name for the planet Venus was Friggjarstjarna, 'Frigg's star'. [21] It is based on the Latin diēs Veneris, "Day of Venus". Saturday: named after the Roman god Saturn associated with the Titan Cronus, father of Zeus and many Olympians.
The song "You Can't Always Get What You Want" on the 1969 album Let It Bleed was supposedly written and composed about Faithfull; the songs "Wild Horses" and "I Got the Blues" on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers were allegedly influenced by Faithfull, and she co-wrote "Sister Morphine". The writing credit for the song was the subject of a ...
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"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is an English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626.
Taylor Swift once proudly declared that New York was waiting for Us.. Swift has been candid about her love for the bustling city throughout her career. Her album, 1989, was inspired by her 2014 ...