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There is a tavern in the town, in the town And there my dear love sits him down, sits him down And drinks his wine 'mid laughter free, And never, never thinks of me. (Chorus:) Fare thee well, for I must leave thee, Do not let this parting grieve thee, And remember that the best of friends Must part, must part. Adieu, adieu kind friends, adieu ...
"Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (1955) is a popular song with lyrics by Fran Landesman, set to music by Tommy Wolf. The title is a jazz rendition of the opening line of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, "April is the cruellest month". [1] The song describes how somebody feels sad and depressed despite all the good things associated with ...
The destination of a chord progression is known as a cadence, or two chords that signify the end or prolongation of a musical phrase. The most conclusive and resolving cadences return to the tonic or I chord; following the circle of fifths , the most suitable chord to precede the I chord is a V chord.
Harmonic movement is largely in an ascending circle of fourths, or with descending chromatic substitutions, but there is also movement between thirds or between major and minor seventh chords. Minor seventh chords are often played in first inversion in this tune, and may therefore be thought of and notated as six chords of the relative major.
The Roud number – "Roud num" – field may be used as a cross-reference to the Roud Folk Song Index itself in order to establish the traditional origin of the work. The database is recognised as a "significant index" by the EFDSS [ 4 ] and was one of the first items to be published on its web site after the launch of the online version of the ...
The song's A-section is often simplified as a repeating I-vi-IV-V progression and taught to beginning piano students as an easy two-hand duet, with one person playing the chords and another playing the melody. [1]
"The Riddle Song" (Roud 330), also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry", is an English-language folk song, [1] a lullaby most likely originating in England and carried over by settlers to the American Appalachians. [2] As is typical with such songs, it is based on the pentatonic scale. [3]
Doc Watson helped popularize "Shady Grove", after presumably learning it from Jean Ritchie, who in turn learned the song from her father. [11]Fairport Convention released a popular version of Matty Groves in 1969 using the traditional "Shady Grove" tune on their album Liege and Lief.