The lyric goes: " Riding down from Bangor in an eastern train, after six weeks of hunting in the woods of Maine.

96 ) goes so far as to say that, with the exception of Horace, he was the only lyric poet worth reading.

This nickname was enshrined in " Oop Bop Sh ' Bam ," recorded by Dizzy Gillespie in 1946 with Clarke on drums, where the scat lyric to the bebop tune goes " oop bop sh ' bam a klook a mop.

The " goggle-eyed, moustached, gloved and top-hatted, bulbous-nosed, cigar-chomping shrimp " ( according to comics historian Bill Blackbeard ) was relentlessly henpecked by " a wife three times his size " ( as the song lyric goes ).

The lyric goes " No mercy for C. C., ' cuz he's in a hair band ".

The lyric, which has become recognizable in its own right, goes, " Say when I was a yout I used to burn collie weed in a Rizla -- used to burn it in a Rizla.

In the 2008 The Gaslight Anthem song " Here's Looking At You, Kid ", Seventh Avenue is mentioned in the lyric, " goes crazy over that New York scene on Seventh Avenue ".

The quad mix features elements not heard in the standard stereo mix, including additional guitar work from Kath in " 25 Or 6 To 4 " and a different vocal take from Lamm in " Wake Up Sunshine ", the latter of which reveals a different lyric in the song's last line.

In their 1971 song " Up To Me ," the British rock band Jethro Tull refers to this car with the lyric " I'll buy a Silver Cloud to ride.

Finally, the prologue to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, played on horn without the use of valves but equally suited to the alphorn, is a beautiful, inspired example of the lyric possibilities of natural harmonics.

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 ).

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

The elegy, as a reflection on a death, on a sorrow more generally, or on something mysterious, may be classified as a form of lyric poetry.

At the 1928 Olympics, Kazimierz Wierzyński won the lyric gold medal with his poem Olympic Laurel that included a verse on Nurmi.

Sappho (; Attic Greek, Aeolic Greek ) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos.

* Original lyric, sung by Edward Meeker, recorded in 1908 on a phonograph cylinder

However, Suskin states in Show Tunes that " As the writing progressed and the extent of Bernstein's lyric contributions became less, the composer agreed to rescind his credit ... Contrary to rumor, Sondheim did not write music for the show ; his only contribution came on " Something's Coming ", where he developed the main strain of the chorus from music Bernstein wrote for the verse.

A set of four short lyric poems ( shi 詩 ) entitled " Lyric Poems on Four Sorrows " ( 四愁詩 ), is also included with Zhang's preface.

Pre-romanticism formed the transition between enlightened classicism and romanticism-the pre-romantics did not completely abandon the emphasis on poetic forms drawn from antiquity, but relaxed the strict separation between the genres and turned away from didactic genres toward more lyric, folk-inspired works ( e. g. Ján Kollár and František Čelakovský.

* Caratacus is the subject of William Mason's 1759 lyric poem of the same name and the 1776 play based on it.

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

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.

A portrait photo of the school-age Vliet can be seen on the front of the lyric sheet within the first issue of the US release of Trout Mask Replica.

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 ..."

Evening and her next four books were mostly lyric miniatures on the theme of love, shot through with sadness.

Atlanta based " flower punk " rock band the Black Lips recorded a song on their 2009 album 200 Million Thousand called " Big Black Baby Jesus of Today " which features the lyric " You can't be the Jack Johnson of Today / Big Black Baby Jesus on the way.

Simonides of Ceos () ( c. 556 – 468 BC ) was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea.

The event, held at Moscow's Russian Army Theatre, included the soldiers walking down the catwalk in uniform and singing songs while accompanied by guitarists ( a memorable lyric included the phrases, " Since we're soldiers, our first concern is automatic weapons ; boys come second ").

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!

American concert and stage performers will often fail to " breathe " and / or " voice " between the two fricatives, leading audiences familiar with British slang to hear " Don't you love arse ?," misinterpreting the lyric or at the least perceiving an unintended double entendre.

The group's first single was Balin's " It's No Secret " ( a tune he wrote with Otis Redding in mind ); the B-side was " Runnin ' Round The World ", the song that led to the band's first clash with RCA, over the lyric " The nights I've spent with you have been fantastic trips.

" In the same song, they also switched the lyric " Don't tell me you want money " to " Don't tell me it ain't funny.

" The Mighty Diamonds song " Pass The Dutchie ", has the following lyric: Cause the spirit of Jah, you know he leads you on.

" The following year, Sly & the Family Stone sang a medley where Sly repeated the lyric " Wanna take you higher!

* The Pointer Sisters " Fire " ( 1979 ) – Changed audio lyric to " I'm riding in your car / you turn on W-L-S ."

* Steely Dan mentioned the creature in the song " Any Major Dude Will Tell You " on their 1974 LP Pretzel Logic with the lyric " Have you ever seen a squonk's tears?

The label was immortalized in the 1978 Rockpile song " They Called It Rock ," in the lyric, " Arista says they love you / But the kids can't dance to this.

In particular, Mann's song " Deathly ", on her album Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, features the lyric " Now that I've met you / Would you object to / Never seeing each other again ", which was used by Claudia as line of dialogue in the film.

Post-punk band Sonic Youth included a track called " Pattern Recognition " on their 2004 album Sonic Nurse that opens with the lyric " I'm a cool hunter making you my way ".

" The show's theme song contains the lyric " no one you see / is smarter than he ".

The Underworld song Stagger includes the lyric " I found you shopping in Europa on Wardour Street ".

The title of the album derives from Christian rock singer Larry Norman, whose catchphrase was " Come on pilgrim, you know He loves you ", which was used as a lyric in the song " Levitate Me ".

Many of Paul Kelly's popular songs feature St Kilda, including " From St Kilda to Kings Cross " from the Album Post which included the famous lyric " I'd give you all of Sydney Harbour ( all that land, all that water ) For that one sweet promenade ", in reference to the St Kilda Esplanade.

* La mauvaise réputation – " the bad reputation " – a semi-autobiographical tune with its catchy lyric: " Mais les braves gens n ' aiment pas que l ' on suive une autre route qu ' eux " ( But the good folks don't like it if you take a different road than they do.

* The Clash mentioned Thunders in the lyric from their song " City Of The Dead ", singing "' Don't you know where to cop?

* At their reunion shows, the New York Dolls have been performing " You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory ", with member Sylvain Sylvain singing the lead vocal and sometimes changing the title lyric to " I can't put my arms around you, Johnny.

You must write this opera, or lyric poem, or whatsoever you choose to call it.

* Carly Simon's song " You're So Vain " includes the lyric " You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte ".