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

The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A.

The lyrics were mostly written by Earle Crooker, but he had left the project, with the score needing vast improvement.

After he's written the melody, then I write the lyrics.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

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 ".

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

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.

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

The following provides the lyrics of the " Lied der Deutschen " as written by Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

The song lyrics are often written in kanji pronounced quite differently from the furigana.

( 1965 ), for which he had written the lyrics to Richard Rodgers's music, Sondheim decided that he would henceforth work only on projects where he could write both the music and lyrics himself.

The lyrics of this song are written from the point of view of a woman, recently dumped, telling her former lover that she can cope without him and does not want anything more to do with him.

The book was written by Jim Davis, with music and lyrics by Michael Dansicker and Bill Meade, and it was booked by AWA Touring Services.

" 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 ).

Many wrestlers, particularly in America, have music and lyrics specially written for their ring entrance.

She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".

Poetry scholar Derek Attridge describes how this works in his book Poetic Rhythm – " rap lyrics are written to be performed to an accompaniment that emphasizes the metrical structure of the verse ".

The lyrics up to this point ( most of them written by Peart ) were heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and the writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by their 1975 song " Anthem " from Fly By Night and a specifically acknowledged derivation in 2112 ( 1976 ).

In addition, Max Webster lyricist Pye Dubois offered the band lyrics to a song he had written.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

The Swiss Psalm was composed in 1841 by Alberich Zwyssig ( 1808 – 1854 ), with lyrics by Leonhard Widmer ( 1809 – 1867 ).

A new set of lyrics was proposed in 1841, to commemorate the coming of age and Coronation of Emperor Pedro II ; those lyrics, popular but also considered poor, were soon abandoned too, this time by order of Emperor Pedro II, who specified that in public ceremonies the Anthem should be played with no lyrics.

The lyrics were written in 1841 on the island of Helgoland, then in British possession.

Théophile Bellando de Castro wrote the lyrics and composed the music of the 1st edition of Hymne Monégasque in 1841, later Castil-Blaze modified the melody and made several other minor changes.

The first performance of the tune ( but not lyrics ) may have happened as early as 1841.

It was very well received and is the first Drudkh album to have Ukrainian lyrics, all of which are adapted or taken directly from the work The Haidamakas ( 1841 ) by Taras Shevchenko, narrating about the famous Ukrainian anti-Polish peasant rebellion of 1768.

Prati was a prolific poet, his volumes of verse ranging from his romantic narrative Ermenegarda ( 1841 ) to the lyrics collected in Psiche ( 1875 ) and Iside ( 1878 ).

Much of the success of the album was due to the lead single, the upbeat " You Can Call Me Al ", whose lyrics describe a man experiencing an identity crisis.

The songs lyrics describe how an experience at Colfax and Broadway made the singer feel as though he would be unsuccessful in his continuing attempts to save the world.

The term " soul music " itself, to describe gospel-style music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961.

* The lyrics in the 1979 song " Rendezvous 6: 02 " by British progressive band U. K. describe a meeting at Waterloo

The soundtrack for the 2004 film Team America: World Police contains a song entitled " End of an Act " whose lyrics describe the emotion of longing for someone as well as panning the hapless Pearl Harbor.

of the band Bad Brains, regarded as a band that " put moshing on the map ," used the term mash in lyrics and in concert stage banter to both incite and to describe the aggressive and often violent dancing of the scene.

They describe themselves as a " geek rock " band, and are known for simplistic modern punk-style songs with frequently humorous, juvenile and pop-culture-referencing lyrics.

In lyrics, the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.

The lyrics describe the construction of a " psychobilly Cadillac.

While the use of the word to describe what is now known as jungle is debatable, the emergence of the term in relation to electronic music circles can be roughly traced to lyrics used in Jamaican toasting ( a pre-cursor to modern MCs ), circa 1970.

The lyrics describe an eye donor recipient realizing his new eyes came from the executed murderer.

Rice would describe the mood of particular songs he wanted, then Andersson and Ulvaeus would write and record the music and send the tapes to Rice, who would then write lyrics to fit the music, and send the resulting tapes back to Andersson and Ulvaeus ad infinitum.

The highly partisan lyrics describe the rebels as treacherous cowards and those fighting them as brave defenders of the innocent.

The album's lyrics describe the titular Wraith's exhibition of heaven.

Guthrie's lyrics describe Grand Coulee Dam as " the mightiest thing ever built by a man "; when it was built it was the largest concrete dam in the world, and as of 2012 it is still the largest electric power-producing facility in the United States and one of the largest concrete structures in the world.

The lyrics describe a man who is desperate to appear on some of the talk shows whose clips appeared in Talk Soup.

The album's lyrics describe the Carnival of Carnage as a representation of the violence that occurs within the ghettos, which takes the form of a traveling carnival to enact the same brutality on the upper class.

The album's lyrics describe the leader of the Carnival, who serves as one of the judges of one ’ s soul in the afterlife, as being created from the listener ’ s own evils.

Woody Guthrie's " This Land Is Your Land " is one of the U. S. most famous folk songs and the lyrics describe his sympathetic views of communism.

The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the Arab of the title is killed by the song's narrator ; in Camus ' story the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach, overwhelmed by his surroundings.

The lyrics describe the title establishment as a luxury resort where " you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

The lyrics describe Toots ' time in prison for an arrest for possession of marijuana.

The lyrics describe the format of the show and give references to other famous duos such as Abbott & Costello, Penn & Teller, and former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Magic Johnson & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( Magic & Kareem ), as well as references to Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys.

The lyrics describe a truck driver struggling to meet his commitments to work and family.