It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

Her version contained some new lyrics, as well as a small modification of the melody.

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

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

He retained elements of the original, but threw some country music aspects in to the song ( specifically, Western Swing ) and cleaned up the lyrics.

The works feature various women in different emotional states, some accompanied by poems and song lyrics.

From the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics.

Tim Jensen produced lyrics on some songs:

" For some critics, the lyrics often seem dislocated from the action but the extent and significance of this is " a matter of scholarly debate.

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

Euripides's use of lyrics in the sung portion of his work shows the influence of Timotheus of Miletus in the later plays the individual singer gained prominence and was given additional scope to demonstrate his virtuosity in lyrical duets between actors, as well as replacing some of the chorus's functions with monodies.

" In some cases, no clear lyrics exist.

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input ; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments.

It was originally a four-stanza song and, over the years, some lyrics have changed.

" In an interview, MacKaye stated that he was offended that some perceived racist overtones in the lyrics, saying, " To me, at the time and now, it seemed clear it's an anti-racist song.

" Kinky Love " was banned by some radio stations in the 1970s for " suggestive " lyrics.

However, this first experience of imprisonment did result in some good, as it brought him to write one of his finest and most beloved lyrics, ' To Althea, from Prison ,' in which he illustrates his noble and paradoxical nature.

In the early stages of ABBA, Anderson co-wrote many of the songs ' lyrics, among them some of the band's biggest hits, such as " Ring Ring " ( 1973 ), " Waterloo " ( 1974 ), " Honey, Honey " ( 1974 ), " I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do " ( 1975 ), " Mamma Mia " ( 1975 ), " S. O. S " ( 1975 ), " Fernando " ( 1976 ), " Dancing Queen " ( 1976 ), " Knowing Me, Knowing You " ( 1977 ), and " The Name of the Game " ( 1977 ).

He wrote some of his own tunes and also wrote lyrics set to traditional tunes.

There are some things that embarrass me so much in the lyrics – the missed accents, the obvious jokes.

Most of the episode titles from the television series Desperate Housewives reference his work in some way, through the use of either song titles or lyrics.

Regarded in some ways as a 90s update of fusion, trip hop may be said to ' transcend ' the hardcore rap styles and lyrics with atmospheric overtones to create a more mellow tempo that has less to do with black American urbanite attitude and more to do with a middle-class British impression of hip hop.

Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead.

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

The melodies flow along pleasantly, as Mr. Coward's songs usually do, but his lyrics have a tired, cut-to-a-familiar-pattern quality.

* Erato ( the ' amorous one '): muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

House of Love in 1994 continued in the same vein, boasting catchy pop songs mingled with spiritual lyrics.

The album struck a much darker note, leaning more towards downtempo, acoustic soft-rock songs, with more mature ( yet still optimistic ) lyrics.

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 ".

Although the original had been one of Marc Almond's all-time favourite songs, he had never read the lyrics and thus incorrectly sang " What'll it be, what'll it be, you and me " instead of " Falling free, falling free, falling free ".

* www. folklyrics. net / celtic. html Celtic songs lyrics

The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state, with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience, and breaking into screaming fits onstage.

In addition to the EP's controversial artwork depicting a gold Christ figure on a cross of dollar bills, the lyrics contained Biafra's most biting social and political commentary yet, and songs such as " Moral Majority ", " Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

UK anarcho-punk band Rudimentary Peni make repeated references in their song titles, lyrics and artwork, including in the album Cacophony, all 30 songs of which are inspired by the life and writings of Lovecraft.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

By fifteen he had developed his " Record Act ", in which he exaggeratedly mimed the lyrics to songs on a phonograph.

From 1961 – 1966, the American TV network NBC carried a karaoke-like series, Sing Along with Mitch, featuring host Mitch Miller and a chorus, which superimposed the lyrics to their songs near the bottom of the TV screen for home audience participation.

Instead of having lyrics displayed on a screen though, Minus One users could learn the songs by turning the vocal channel up and singing along to it.

Instead of having to carry around hundreds of CD-Gs or laserdiscs, KJs can " rip " their entire libraries onto their hard drives and play the songs and lyrics from the computer.

Karaoke companies like Stingray Digital, Chartbuster and Easy Karaoke select popular songs and release soundalike tracks with lyrics synchronized, most commonly in CD + G format.