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In the 1920s, folklorists, notably Dorothy Scarborough (1925) and Guy Johnson and Howard W. Odum (1926), also collected transcribed versions. Scarborough's short text, published in her book, On The Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (1925), is the first version published under the title "Nine-Pound Hammer", before the earliest commercial recording of that name. [7]
Notts County supporters are known to chant the "Wheelbarrow Song" to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey", consisting of the lyrics "I had a wheelbarrow, the wheel fell off". [134] In 1981, a group of supporters produced a record to mark the team's promotion to the First Division; Noel Edmunds would later feature it on his BBC Radio 1 show in a ...
A common wheelbarrow. A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled load-bearing vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the rear. The term "wheelbarrow" is made of two words: "wheel" and "barrow."
When I was a bachelor I lived by myself, And all the bread and cheese I got I laid upon the shelf; The rats and the mice, they made such a strife,
In another of his routines, a black woman [citation needed] exclaimed, "James Lewis, git away from dat wheelbarrow – say, you know you doesn't know nothin' 'bout machin'ry!" Although Gardner's early-1960s albums for RCA Victor contained questionable racial humor, [ citation needed ] there is nothing like the overtly racist content of his late ...
The poet John Hollander cited "The Red Wheelbarrow" as a good example of enjambment to slow down the reader, creating a "meditative" poem. [14] The editors of Exploring Poetry believe that the meaning of the poem and its form are intimately bound together. They state that "since the poem is composed of one sentence broken up at various ...
Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877.Artwork by Walter Crane. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game.
That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall, in a performance by Katie Lawrence. Tony Pastor was the first to sing it in the United States. Its success in America began when Jennie Lindsay brought down the house with it at the Atlantic Gardens on the Bowery early in 1892.