and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

Collins, Cash, and Norman were unable to discern if the power of the song came from the music or the lyrics.

The song features the lyrics, " If I'm Obelix, you are my boulder ".

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

The end result is a song that retains familiar phrases and lyrics, but offers something new.

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

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

While the origins of hip-hop are believed to be from the Bronx, rival hip-hop group Juice Crew's lyrics were misunderstood to contain a claim in the song " The Bridge " that hip hop was directly a result of artists originating from Queensbridge.

According to this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula ) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from " piggy, suey " to " Peggy Sue ", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.

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

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.

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.

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

Love's song lyrics are predominantly told from a female's point of view, and her earlier work, particularly on Hole's first two albums, was noted for being highly aggressive and critical toward cultural definitions of women.

Improvisation is very important also, while singing a song the main singer can change the music's lyrics, telling something that's happening in or outside the Roda.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

In addition, the band has played a reworked version of their song " MTV Get Off the Air ", re-titled " MP3 Get Off the Web ", with lyrics criticizing music piracy.

Breeskin had written the music to the Redskins fight song " Hail to the Redskins " and Marshall ’ s wife had penned the lyrics.

The song was retitled to " Alma Mater " in the 1980s when its lyrics were changed to refer to women as well as men.

The lyrics, which speak of " castles burning ", can be seen as a metaphor for Lester's view of Angela —" the rosy, fantasy-driven exterior of the ' American Beauty — as it burns away to reveal " the timid, small-breasted girl who, like his wife, has willfully developed a false public self ".

Ironically, the lyrics speak to their own condition of running out of food.

Cocker had previously lived in Paris in the early 1990s, writing lyrics for Pulp's breakthrough album His ' n ' Hers there, but he never learned to speak French, according to Bidault-Waddington.

In addition, his encyclopedic memory of hip-hop lyrics allows him to distinctively speak with his hands by scratching in lyrics from several different songs to construct new phrases.

He proclaims to be from Bremen, Germany, to speak English as a second language, and some of his songs are in German, or have some German lyrics.

That night Jeanne overhears her father singing the Japanese national anthem, " Kimi ga yo ", whose lyrics speak of the endurance of stones.

It was published in 1934 with lyrics Škoda lásky, kterou jsem tobě dala ... Publishing house Shapiro Bernstein acquired the rights shortly before World War II and the polka, now the " Beer Barrel Polka " with the English lyrics " Roll out the barrel ...", became the most popular song of the Allies in the West, although the original Czech lyrics have a very different meaning and do not speak about beer.

His lyrics became known for their extemporaneous and often autobiographical style, which he described as " writing as I would speak.

A pop ballad, the song's lyrics speak of respecting nature and living in harmony with the Earth's creatures.

The lyrics speak for themselves ... No imagery, no obscure references.

The Edea's song lyrics are written in an older form of the Finnish language and speak of old traditions as well.

Musically, the song is a mid-tempo dance-pop song and the lyrics speak about the protagonist wanting changes in a relationship she is in.

None of the band members knew how to write or speak the language, so they asked their friend Lino to translate their lyrics.

The lyrics speak of Björk feeling a love so intense that it is actually dangerous, requesting that her lover return to " calm her down ".

An up-tempo dance song, the lyrics speak about the protagonist trying to discern if a boy she likes will ever like her back.

Known for their left-wing politics, their lyrics often speak out against the Mafia and fascism.

The lyrics speak of " to touch the earth again " and how " the sea dances ", how " this day is the remaining trace of 40 years of passionate blood solidified " and to " guard this forever and ever ".

The lyrics speak of characters similar to Christopher and Mary from Under the Cherry Moon, although their actions are not seen in the film.

The lyrics speak of singer, Joel Pott's, regret at being far away from his family whilst on tour, of how difficult it is to conduct a relationship with them over the telephone and how, when he finally gets to spend some time at home, he will ' make the most of it '.