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Green Grow the Lilacs is a folk song of Irish origin that was popular in the United States during the mid-19th century.. The song title is the source of a folk etymology for the word gringo that states that the Mexicans misheard U.S. troops singing "green grow" during the Mexican–American War.
The Pozo-Seco Singers also released a single of the song in 1967, as did Episode Six in the U.K. [20] British pop singer Lulu recorded a version of "Morning Dew" for her album Love Loves to Love Lulu, produced by John Paul Jones, in 1967, and this was released as a single in the US, [21] Canada (#55 [22]), and Australia in 1968.
The song is discussed in the "Journal of the Irish folk Song Society" in 1905 and 1911. In the 1940s Helen Hartness Flanders found a version in Vermont. [citation needed] There are notable recordings by: "John McGettigan & his Irish Minstrels" on a single released in the 1930s in the USA; Paddy Tunney on the album Man of Songs (1963)
"Levy-Dew", also known as "A New Year Carol" and "Residue", is a British folk song of Welsh origin traditionally sung in New Year celebrations. It is associated with a New Year's Day custom involving sprinkling people with water newly drawn from a well. The song was set to music by Benjamin Britten in 1934.
"Foggy Dew" is the name of several Irish ballads, and of an Irish lament.The most popular song of that name (written by Fr.Charles O'Neill) chronicles the Easter Rising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British Empire, as so many young men were doing in World War I.
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is a song written by Jim Steinman. It was released in 1977 on the album Bat Out of Hell , with vocals by American musicians Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley . An uncommonly long song for a single, it has become a staple of classic rock radio [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and has been described as the "greatest rock duet ".
"Today" has been included in a few compilation albums. The eighteenth volume of Indie Top 20, a Melody Maker-sponsored compilation series which serves as a "time capsule of U.K. indie music", features "Today" as its fourth track. [30] The song appears on a two-disc MTV Dutch import, Rock Am Ring, a collection of hit singles from the early 1990s ...
left her there till sunday (chorus) All the people in Belle Isle Don't get up till half past nine Wash their face in kerosene oil Polly, you're a corker! (chorus) Elsie Murray, she's so fine, Don't get up til half past nine Won't get up to feed the swine Dirty Elsie Murray. 'Deed I is in love with you Up all night in the foggy dew 'Deed I is in ...