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The song was covered by Daryl Braithwaite on his 1990 album Rise.It was released as a single on 28 January 1991 and reached No. 1 on the Australian Singles Chart in May. [1] [2] "The Horses" has been certified ten-times platinum in Australia by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). [3]
It peaked at number 2 on both the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (in June 1968) and the US Billboard R&B chart. [3] [4] In Canada the song reached number 7.[5]The song sold a million copies within three months of release, and attained the gold record award from the Recording Industry Association of America in August 1968.
In the 1934 collection American Ballads and Folk Songs, ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax give a version titled "All the Pretty Little Horses" and ending: 'Way down yonder / In de medder / There's a po' lil lambie, / De bees an' de butterflies / Peckin' out its eyes, / De po' lil thing cried, "Mammy!"' [5] The Lomaxes quote Scarborough as ...
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs, [1] which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. [2] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20004.
"All the Tired Horses" is a song written by Bob Dylan, released on his 1970 double album Self Portrait. The song is the first track on the album. It is most notable for its absence of Dylan's singing. It consists of a small choir of female voices (Hilda Harris, Albertine Robinson, and Maeretha Stewart) [1] repeating the same two lines
Its lyrics were based by Garvey on "transcendence over those who see the world as only earthly and finite", with the "horses" in the song representing "the five senses from Hindu philosophy". [2] Evan Sawdey of PopMatters wrote that "Goodbye Horses" has a "strangely entrancing thump" and "sad, tragicomic elements" in the lyrics, describing it ...
"Wild Horses" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was first released in 1970 by the Flying Burrito Brothers as the Stones didn't think the demo was worth recording fully. It was subsequently recorded by the Stones for their 1971 album Sticky Fingers when they felt it was worth reconsideration.
With the beginning of World War I, the Russian writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky penned the text of the 1915 song "March of the Siberian Regiment" to the tune of "Unhitch the Horses, Boys." Later, the same melody was used in the Russian Civil War song "Po dolinam i po vzgoriam". [9]