Mercer has also written both music and lyrics for several songs.

Mercer's lyrics are characterized by an unerring ear for rhythmic nuances, a puckish sense of humor expressed in language with a colloquial flair.

The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.

The " dangers, toils, and snares " of Newton's lyrics had both literal and figurative meanings for Americans.

Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.

* Hymns: Alcaeus sang about the gods in the spirit of the Homeric hymns, to entertain his companions rather than to glorify the gods and in the same meters that he used for his ' secular ' lyrics.

Other examples of his readiness for both warlike and unwarlike subjects are lyrics celebrating his brother's heroic exploits as a Babylonian mercenary and lyrics sung in a rare meter ( Sapphic Ionic in minore ) in the voice of a distressed girl, " Wretched me, who share in all ills!

Music for the alphabet song including some common variations on the lyrics

Maasstraat became famous as the first group combining reggae with Dutch lyrics, inspiring acts like Postmen, for example.

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

At the time of Lerner's death, he had just begun to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera, and was replaced by Charles Hart.

He received an urgent call from Andrew Lloyd Webber who wanted him to write the lyrics to The Phantom of the Opera, for which he wrote " Masquerade ".

He had turned down an invitation to write the English-language lyrics for the musical version of Les Misérables.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

` Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isfahānī (), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj ( 897 – 967 ) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī.

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

He sticks to no musical conventions, varying his riffs and rhythm and singing complex and expressive lyrics in a manner exceptional at the time for a " simple country blues singer.

Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.

His best known works include the lyrics to songs such as " Star Dust ", " Sweet Lorraine ", " Deep Purple ", " Stars Fell on Alabama ", " Sophisticated Lady ", " Volare " ( English lyrics ), " Moonlight Serenade ", " Mr. Ghost Goes to Town ", " Sleigh Ride ", " One Morning in May ", and " Louisiana Fairy Tale ", which was the first theme song used in the PBS Production of This Old House.

Walter Mitty is referenced in the lyrics to the songs " T & P Combo " by 311, " Vacation " by Alabama, " Sex and Drugs and Rock ' n ' Roll " by Ian Dury, " Kitty Ricketts " by Radiator, " In The City " by Madness, " Dreams " by The Descendents, " Walter Mitty Blues " by The Meteors, " All Dressed Up For San Francisco " by The Philosopher Kings, " Silver Bird " by Mark Lindsay, and " Sammy Davis City " by Joe Strummer and Brian Setzer.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original German.

In a rare example of a team actually being mentioned in a song's lyrics, the University of Alabama marching band often plays " Deacon Blues " by Steely Dan due to the school being referred to as one of " the winners in the world ," even though the reference was intended as sarcastic.

In 2005 the Hoover, Alabama board of education withdrew an invitation for the band to perform a concert at Hoover High School, The board cited complaints about the lyrics of the band's songs, a recent arrest in California for drug possession, and " the likely possibility of irresponsible acts ," in determining that it was " not appropriate to have a band of this kind of nature " perform at the school.

Released the same year and containing re-recorded tracks from Omikron, his album ' Hours ...' featured a song with lyrics by the winner of his " Cyber Song Contest " Internet competition, Alex Grant.

" The Anacreontic Song " ( or " To Anacreon in Heaven "), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States.

** La, la, la by Massiel ( music and lyrics by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 for Spain, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

** Poupée de cire, poupée de son, sung by France Gall ( music and lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 for Luxembourg.

Eastwood was nominated for Best Original Score, while the song " Grace is Gone " with music by Eastwood and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager was nominated for Best Original Song.

The pilot episode ( where it was originally called I'm Sorry, They're At It Again ) opened with Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall singing the words of " Three Blind Mice " to the tune of " Ol ' Man River " followed by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor performing the lyrics of " Sing a Song of Sixpence " to the melody of " These Foolish Things ".

** 1925 Song of the Flame ( music by George Gershwin and Stothart, lyrics Hammerstein II )

Some of his more famous lyrics include " Blue Moon ," " Mountain Greenery ," " The Lady Is a Tramp ," " Manhattan ," " Where or When ," " Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered ," " Falling in Love with Love ," " My Funny Valentine ," " I Could Write a Book ", " This Can't Be Love ", " With a Song in My Heart ", " It Never Entered My Mind ", and " Isn't It Romantic?

This was nominated: Best Music, Original Song in Academy Awards ) Harry Warren ( music ), Mack Gordon ( lyrics ).

Charles's subsequent flight has become the stuff of legend and is commemorated in the popular folk song " The Skye Boat Song " ( lyrics 1884, tune traditional ) and also the old Irish song Mo Ghile Mear by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill.

Chaplin's version is also known as The Nonsense Song, as his character has to sing it in gibberish ( due to losing the shirt cuff on which the lyrics were written, and thus having to make up the lyrics on the spot ).

* Best Original Song (" It Might Be You "): Dave Grusin ( music ), Alan Bergman ( lyrics ) and Marilyn Bergman ( lyrics )

Anchors Aweigh was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gene Kelly ), Best Cinematography, Color ( Robert Planck, Charles P. Boyle ), Best Music, Song ( for Jule Styne ( music ) and Sammy Cahn ( lyrics ) for " I Fall in Love Too Easily ") and Best Picture.

He reflected the impact of this part of his life in the lyrics of " Some Song ": " Charlie beat you up week after week, and when you grow up you're going to be a freak.

As Weiland began to deal with substance abuse, his lyrics became more personal and intricate ; songs like " Interstate Love Song " deal with his addiction's tolls on his relationship with his then-wife, Janina.

It was originally named " Sång till Norden " (" Song to the North "), and the first words of its lyrics have become adopted as the title in the interim.

* Song lyrics ( of The Four Aces ), webpage: OldieLyrics-The_Four_Aces.

Plant's lyrics with Led Zeppelin were often mystical, philosophical and spiritual, alluding to events in classical and Norse mythology, such as " Immigrant Song ", which refers to Valhalla and Viking conquests.

Conversely, Plant sometimes used more straightforward blues-based lyrics dealing primarily with sexual innuendo, as in " The Lemon Song ", " Trampled Under Foot ", and " Black Dog ".

Around the time he was developing the lyrics to " Get Back ", McCartney satirised the " Rivers of Blood speech " by former British Cabinet minister Enoch Powell in a brief jam that has become known as the " Commonwealth Song ".

A sixth song was sometimes referred to as " War Song ", but its real title is unknown, although it used lyrics which later became The Cult's ' Spiritwalker '.