Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

* Polyhymnia or Polymnia ( the ' of many hymns '): muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing and rhetoric

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

The Doors were banned on September 17, 1967 after they were asked to remove the lyric " Girl, we couldn't get much higher " from their song " Light My Fire " ( CBS censors believed that it was too overt a reference to drug use ).

Thrash metal band Slayer later covered the song, with the last iteration of the lyric " Guilty of being white " changed to " Guilty of being right.

It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.

" " The Letter " contained the nonsense lyric, " the ' puppetutes ' of love ," which was later picked up by the Steve Miller Band as " the pompatus of love " and used in their song " The Joker ".

The Pet Shop Boys song " Building A Wall ", from their 2009 album Yes, contains the lyric " Jesus and the Man From U. N. C. L. E.

He wrote the 1954 song " The Letter " which contained the nonsense lyric, " the puppetutes of love.

This wasn't written about Kenneth Williams per se, but, after I'd composed it and was playing it through, I realised the lyric sort of summed Kenneth up − I think I'd recently been reading his published Diaries and I had ended the song with the same words Williams had written in his diary before he died.

The song " Ride " from their album T-Ride includes the lyric " Te-hell-ya Ride ".

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Novello wrote " Keep the Home Fires Burning ", a song that expressed the feelings of innumerable families sundered by World War I. Novello composed the music for the song to a lyric by the American Lena Guilbert-Ford, and it became a huge popular success, bringing Novello money and fame at the age of 21.

In the new version, she changed the lyric " here's to the dawn of their days " to " here's to the dawn of her days ", as a tribute to her late sister Mimi, about whom Baez wrote the song in 1969.

The song includes puns based on London Underground names, and includes the lyric " You ’ re harder to understand than Mornington Crescent!

* I Do ( Young Jeezy song ) Andre 3000 mentions in a lyric ' And maybe 2030 our baby, she ’ ll be nerdy make the whole club swoon '

* Elvis Presley was a Cajun, a song from the 1991 Irish film The Commitments in which a 2-piece band plays along to the lyric " Elvis was a Cajun, he had a Cajun Heart "

Nimoy narrated the song lyric excerpts as originally written by Heinlein without singing them.

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

* Part of Brooke's poem " Dust " is used as the lyric for a song by the same title, composed by Danny Kirwan and recorded by Fleetwood Mac on their 1972 album Bare Trees.

He considered the lyric " I'd love to turn you on ", from their song " A Day in the Life ", to be ridiculous and conceited.

* 2011-Alternative music band They Might Be Giants briefly referred to him in the song ″ Can't Keep Johnny Down ″ from their album Join Us, in the following lyric: " Some dude / Hitting golf balls on the moon / Bathroom in his pants / And he thinks he's better than me ..."

Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and study it and to become a voracious reader of anything he could find, because " all good lyric writers are great readers.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

*" When Johnny Comes Marching Home " ( sometimes " When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again ") is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.

The Irish anti-war song " Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " and " When Johnny Comes Marching Home " share the same melodic material.

" Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song.

*" One Piece at a Time ", a song by Johnny Cash about stealing a Cadillac from the factory over several years

' Impi ' is also the title of a very famous South Africa song by Johnny Clegg and the band Juluka which has become something of an unofficial national anthem, especially at major international sports events and especially when the opponent is England.

* Jackson ( song ), written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, and made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

Page suggested that they attempt " Train Kept A-Rollin '", originally a jump blues song popularised in a rockabilly version by Johnny Burnette, which had been covered by The Yardbirds.

The single peaked at # 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1967, when Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash also made the song their own.

The Smiths members Morrissey and Johnny Marr shared an appreciation for Smith's Horses, and reveal that their song " The Hand That Rocks the Cradle " is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, " Kimberly ".

* " Pipeline " ( song ), a 1963 song by surf rock band The Chantays, also recorded by Johnny Thunders, Hank Marvin, The Ventures and Dick Dale, the Del-Tones, Agent Orange, and Anthrax

Other leading acts included Billy Fury, Joe Brown, and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, whose 1960 hit song " Shakin ' All Over " became a rock and roll standard.

Crow was featured on the Johnny Cash album American III: Solitary Man in the song " Field of Diamonds " as a background vocalist, and also played the accordion for the songs " Wayfaring Stranger " and " Mary of the Wild Moor.

* Johnny Clegg mentions Steve Biko, Victoria Mxenge and Neil Aggett in his song " Asimbonanga " about Apartheid and Nelson Mandela.

Ross ' original song Sittin ' In The Jailhouse was recorded in 1980 by Johnny Winter and appeared on two of Winter's releases, " Raisin ' Cain " and " A Rock ' n ' Roll Collection ".

The official release of the song, released on Digidance label Paella, contains an interpolation of the sample replayed by studio musicians Bert Meulendijk ( guitar ), David de Marez Oyens ( bass ) and vocals by Johnny Kelvin and Addy van der Zwan.

Hearts and Bones included " The Late Great Johnny Ace ", a song partly about Johnny Ace, an American R & B singer, and partly about slain Beatle John Lennon.

The event was described in the Johnny Cash song " As Long as the Grass Shall Grow " from the 1964 album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, which focused on the history of and problems facing Native Americans in the United States.

Based on the song writing partnership of vocalist Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, the band also included bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce.

The song was written by Fred Rogers and played by Johnny Costa.

He released a version of Johnny Cash's song " I Walk the Line ".