Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The term Early music era may also refer to contemporary but traditional or folk music, including Asian music, Persian music, music of India, Jewish music, Greek music, Roman music, the music of Mesopotamia, the music of Egypt, and Muslim music.

Gen. Wheaton had become a local folk hero when he successfully defended Washington, DC and nearby Fort Stevens from an attack by Confederate General Jubal Early on July 11 – 12, 1864.

Early 20th scholarly analysis of American music tended to interpret European-derived classical traditions as the most worthy of study, with the folk, religious and traditional musics of the common people denigrated as low-class and of little artistic or social worth.

Music of Israel: Early Zionist settlers in Palestine, as far back as the 1880s, sought to create a new mode of Jewish folk music that was based on Biblical musical modes that had long since been abandoned.

Early in their recording careers, Hall & Oates had trouble clearly defining their sound, alternating among folk, soul, rock and pop.

In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits ( sometimes referred to simply as " familiars ") were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic.

After the final fade to black a sequence featuring an actor playing the Minstrel would be shown as he sung these lyrics to the tune of " Early One Morning ": " We'll have the merry time again with Robin and his Merry Men and the folk who'll bring him to you then now beg a word with you.

Early Barbadian folk music, despite legal restrictions, was a major part of life among the island's slave population.

Early American alternative bands such as R. E. M., The Feelies, and Violent Femmes combined punk influences with folk music and mainstream music influences.

Early scholars of folk drama, influenced by James Frazer's The Golden Bough, tended to view these plays as debased versions of a pre-Christian fertility ritual, but this view is discounted by modern researchers.

He also authored the 1987 book, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, which argues that early Mormon leaders were greatly influenced by folk magic and superstitious beliefs including stone looking, charms, and divining rods.

Early in 1966 Palmer began running an all-night folk club, Clive's Incredible Folk Club, on the fourth floor of a building in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, where they became the house band.

Britain in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods was a place where folk magic was widely popular amongst much of the populace.

The cunning folk were also commonly employed to locate missing or stolen property and uncover the perpetrator: this was of particular importance throughout the Early Modern period, when peoples ' possessions were far more valued than in later centuries as they were expensive to replace, particularly for the poor.

In England during the Early Medieval period, various forms of folk magic could be found amongst the Anglo-Saxons, who referred to such practitioners as wicca ( male ) or wicce ( female ), or at times also as dry, practitioners of drycraeft, the latter of which have been speculated as being anglicised terms for the Irish drai, a term referring to druids, who appeared as anti-Christian sorcerers in much Irish literature of the period.

In England and Wales, which had been politically united following the Norman invasion of Wales in the Late Medieval period, cunning folk had operated throughout the latter part of the Medieval and into the Early Modern period.

During the witch trials of Early Modern Europe, many practitioners of folk magic that did not see themselves as witches, but as healers or seers, were convicted of witchcraft ( Éva Pócs ' " sorcerer witches "): many English " witches " convicted of consorting with demons seem to have been cunning folk whose fairy familiars had been demonised, and over half the accused witches in Hungary seem to have been healers.

Early Mormonism and the Magic World View is an exhaustive recounting of the role of 19th-century New England folk magic lore in Joseph Smith's early visions and in the development of the Book of Mormon.

Early in the 20th century, Grainger started collecting folk songs from around England, using wax cylinders to capture performances in the field as well as transcribing them.

Early folk song collectors also often collected nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 8 ).

Early demos by Chumbawamba feature the accordion and the trumpet, though it would take them over 20 years to actually transition into a full fledged folk act.

* During the finale of the song Distant Early Warning by Canadian band Rush, Geddy Lee sings, " Absalom Absalom Absalom.

Stanzler, a longtime friend of Kid Rock, is mentioned by name in Rock's song " Early Mornin ' Stoned Pimp ".

Early British punks expressed nihilistic views with the slogan No Future, which came from the Sex Pistols song " God Save the Queen ".

Early in her professional career, Amos befriended author Neil Gaiman, who became a fan after she referenced him in the song " Tear in Your Hand " and also in print interviews.

Early shows began with a cold open suggesting the sinister plot for that program, then cut to a shot of a big ocean wave and the start of the theme song.

Early in 2002, Blur recorded a song that would be played by European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander once it touched down ; however, attempts to locate the probe after it landed on Mars were fruitless.

Early in the film the song " The Darktown Strutters Ball " can be heard ; this is a historically inaccurate inclusion, since the song was written in 1917.

Early in 1984 Megadeth recorded a three song demo, and on the strength of their demo, Megadeth was asked to be signed with the New York based independent label Combat Records.

When Nikki Wood's son Robin tries to kill Spike, he unwittingly frees Spike from his hypnotic trigger: the song " Early One Morning ", a favorite of his mother, which evokes Spike's traumatic memories of his mother's abusive behavior toward him after she turned ; after Spike is able to address these issues, he realizes his mother had always loved him, knowledge which frees him from the First's control.

Early Greek sources have it that Philomela was turned into a swallow, which has no song ; Procne turns into a nightingale, singing a beautiful but sad song in remorse.

He also used the Scottish hymn tune Crimond, a traditional French cradle song, an Irish version of the fertility dance-tune " All Around My Hat " and a reference to the English folksong " Early One Morning ".

Early on, the dance was frequently spelled mash in fanzines and record liner notes, but pronounced mosh, as in the 1982 song " Total Mash " by the D. C .- based hardcore band Scream.

Early success for the group came in 1980 with the song " Only a Lad " from their eponymous EP.

A second tribute album, titled Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon ( the line " hurry home early " from the song " Boom Boom Mancini ", on Sentimental Hygiene ) was released by Wampus Multimedia on July 8, 2005.

The Early November song " Baby Blue " includes the line " I don't want you to love me anymore ", a direct reference to the Get Up Kids song " No Love " both lyrically and melodically.

Early in the film the song " The Darktown Strutters Ball " can be heard ; this is a historically inaccurate inclusion, since the song was written in 1917.

However, Morrissey later allegedly touched on the subject of Hungerford with the song " Michael's Bones " included on My Early Burglary Years.

Early song lyrics were entirely in Cajun French.

* " Gaea ", song on Pentangle's So Early in the Spring album

Early in the 90's and later scored a Top 10 hit single on Billboard's Hot 100 charts with her song " Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough " as a duet with Don Henley.