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  2. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song) Traum durch die Dämmerung; Trees (poem) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; Two Songs, 1916; Two Songs, 1917–18; Two Songs, 1920; Two Songs, 1928

  3. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Song is mainly inspired by the novella's ending, when protagonist Japi jumps off the Waalbrug. In the song, however, Japi does not drown but is implied to have ended up in Italy. [154] "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" Ambrosia: Ambrosia: Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut: Lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on ...

  5. A Red, Red Rose - Wikipedia

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    A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "(Oh) My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem. Many composers have set Burns' lyric to music, but it gained worldwide popularity set to the traditional tune "Low Down in the Broom"

  6. Greensleeves - Wikipedia

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    "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song. A broadside ballad by the name "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationers' Company in September 1580, [1] [2] and the tune is found in several late 16th-century and early 17th-century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various ...

  7. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    Smithsonian Global Sound: The Music of Poetry—audio samples of poems, hymns and songs in ballad meter. The Oxford Book of Ballads, complete 1910 book by Arthur Quiller-Couch; English Broadside Ballad Archive—an archive of images and recordings of over 4,000 pre-1700 broadside ballads; A Book of Old English Ballads public domain audiobook at ...

  8. Bonnie Dundee - Wikipedia

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    Bonnie Dundee is the title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.

  9. Poetry Man - Wikipedia

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    "Poetry Man" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow. It was written by Snow, produced by Dino Airali, ... Now I sound like an old fart.