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The song is a reminiscence of the narrator's formative years, its lyrics describing how much the world has changed since his childhood. Examples abound of how mothers "smoked and drank" during pregnancy, lead-based paint was available, children drank water out of garden hoses and rode bicycles without helmets or other safety equipment, parents physically disciplined their children when they ...
"God Made the World" is a song by American synthpop act Cold Cave. It was released in 2013 as a single through Heartworm Press — a publishing company and a record label founded by Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave. The release is a part of the series of singles released by Cold Cave in 2013. [2]
The song "Daybreak Over the Ocean" was originally recorded in 1978 by Mike Love for his first, as yet unreleased solo album, First Love (and also re-recorded for his equally unreleased solo album of a few years ago, Mike Love Not War a.k.a. Unleash The Love: this is the version — with additional Beach Boys vocals — that appears on the album).
"That's Why God Made the Radio" is a song written by Joe Thomas, Brian Wilson, Jim Peterik, and Larry Millas (Peterik and Millas are original members of The Ides Of March) for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was the first new single from the band in 20 years and was included on the band's 29th studio album of the same name. The album ...
Buffy Sainte-Marie, CC (born Beverley Jean Santamaria; February 20, 1941) [1] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and social activist. [2]Sainte-Marie's singing and writing repertoire includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism, and her work has often focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada.
The song was part of a fatalistic musical genre in the 1930s where African-Americans were depicted as "fated to work the land, fated to be where they are, to never change". [1] " That's Why Darkies Were Born" has been described as presenting a satirical view of racism, [ 5 ] although others have said there is no evidence that the song was ever ...
Of its four verses, the first and fourth are traditionally sung and the second and third omitted. The song is set to a traditional Irish air, best known in early 19th century America as " Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms ", a popular song whose lyrics were written by the Irish poet Thomas Moore .
"The Water Is Wide" may be considered a family of lyrics with a particular hymn-like tune. [1]"O Waly Waly" (Wail, Wail) may be sometimes a particular lyric, sometimes a family tree of lyrics, sometimes "Jamie Douglas", sometimes one melody or another with the correct meter, and sometimes versions of the modern compilation "The Water Is Wide" (usually with the addition of the verse starting "O ...