In 1994, a fan wrote the song's lyrics on the sidewalk leading up to Windmill Lane Studios in blue chalk.

The song's nonsensical lyrics tell a story about a man who lives in a " blue world ".

The song's hook is the sentence " I'm blue ", followed by a repetition of the words " da ba dee da ba di ", which the hook is based around.

Because of the song's theme of uncritical acceptance of a transgender woman, Parton received death threats.

" Not Counting You " reached number 2, and then " The Dance " put him at number-one again ; this song's theme of people dying while doing something they believe in resonated strongly and, together with a popular music video, directed by John Lloyd Miller, gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience.

A new, more uptempo arrangement of the theme song was introduced for the third season, but this did not assuage the song's critics, and elicited criticism from some who liked the original version.

** At the beginning of Ice Cube's music video for the song, " Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It ", from his 2007 album Raw Footage, a line of text states that " By the year 2020, no child will be left behind " which is followed by an Orwellian classroom setting designed as a segue into the song's sarcastic theme of blame-shifting and anti-gansta rap propaganda during the waning days of the presidency of George W. Bush.

The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.

The network suffered considerable public embarrassment when it lost the rights to the show's theme music following a protracted lawsuit launched by the song's composer and publishers.

Fred Schneider of The B-52s plays a plastic toy slide whistle in live performances of the song " Party Out of Bounds " as a prop for the song's drunken partygoer theme, in place of the trumpet thus used in the studio for the Wild Planet song.

The song's release coincided with the end of World War II in Europe and became the unofficial homecoming theme for many veterans.

The song's theme of self-empowerment had universal appeal, released in the period immediately following the intense American civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Lantz soon adopted the song as Woody's theme music, and due to the song's popularity, Woody Woodpecker fan clubs sprang up, theaters held " Woody " matinées, and boys got the " Woody Woodpecker " haircut.

Fernandez was also responsible for a rearrangement of the theme song's melody, written by Nobuyoshi Koshibe, and subsequently wrote its English lyrics.

The tumult that would have been caused if this and other levees had broken was the song's underlying theme.

At the time, Kurt was unaware that Kathleen was referring to a deodorant marketed specifically to young women, and thought that besides having a nice ring to it, the phrase also helped to succinctly summarize, organize and unify the then-nascent song's seemingly-disparate lyrical content into a theme.

The song's lyrics are self-referencing, explaining how the song came to be (" Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song ") and asking what the listener thinks of it.

" used in the Western United States ( The straightforward use of that expression was also in the theme song's lyrics.

" Stipe compared the song's theme to " Every Breath You Take " by The Police, saying, " It's just a classic obsession pop song.

The 16th Commonwealth Games was officially opened by the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia's Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad on 11 September 1998 at 17: 30 MST ( UTC + 08: 00 ) as main focus for the games and the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies was the newly built National Stadium Bukit Jalil a 100, 000-spectator capacity stadium it was officially opening ceremonies a vocalist in theme song's " Malaysiaku Gemilang " was sung by sung by Malaysian pop singers here Norzila Binti Haji Aminuddin, Shahrul Anuar Zain, Siti Roziana Binti Zain, Shaheila binti Abdul Majid, Amy Mastura Binti Suhaimi, Ning Baizura binti Sheikh Hamzah, Siti Nurhaliza Binti Tarudin, a featured 15-sports in 3638-events and 70-countries of region in Commonwealth of Nations.

The song's theme is taken from the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of Welsh volunteers who joined the left-wing International Brigades, fighting Francisco Franco's military rebels against the Spanish Republic.

On different episodes, the series ' theme song's lyrics alternate between English and Japanese, sung by the J-pop duo Puffy ( called " Puffy AmiYumi " in the United States to distinguish it from Sean Combs ).

The song's verses then alternate with this signature theme, and the track boasts some of Fripp's most dextrous acoustic guitar playing alongside a soaring saxophone solo by Collins.

The film's theme song, " Ready to Take a Chance Again ", was composed by Charles Fox, with lyrics by Fox's writing partner, Norman Gimbel and performed by Barry Manilow, who conceived and supervised the song's recording in partnership with Ron Dante.

" The song became a subject of some controversy when fans and critics noted connections between its theme and the attacks of September 2001, months after the song's release, which resulted in the FBI investigating Arjona.

The theme song's lyrics were written by series creator, writer, and director Nat Hiken, with music by John Strauss.

The song's popularity reached the point where it was used as a love theme for a couple on the soap opera All My Children.

Ray Charles is credited with the song's most well known rendition in current times ( although Elvis Presley had success with it in the 1970s ).

The opening instrumental " Fire On High ", with its mix of strings and blazing acoustic guitars, saw heavy exposure as background music on CBS Sports Spectacular montages, though most viewers had no idea of the song's origins.

The standard 7-inch mix ( by the name of " Cowboys & Indians ") featured a pop / radio-oriented production that dispensed with a section of the song's middle eight altogether.

( In earlier seasons, the " Gossip Girls " and " Gloom, Despair .." sketches would both end with a repeat of the song's chorus, but in later years that practice was eliminated.

Columbia Records released one single from the project (" Yellow Balloon ") as did the song's writer, Gary Zekley, with The Yellow Balloon, but with legal wrangles scuttling Torrence's Columbia deal and Berry's disapproval of the project, Save for a Rainy Day remained a self-released album on the J & D Record Co. label.

The song's lyrics make a series of scurrilous allegations against a number of highly respected philosophers, usually with regard to their capacity or incapacity for imbibing intoxicating liquors.

Just as mondegreens transform songs based on experience, a folk song repeated in a country where people are unfamiliar with some of the song's references is often transformed.

The reunited Pogues played dates in the UK with support from the Dropkick Murphys in late 2005, and re-released their 1987 Christmas classic " Fairytale of New York " on 19 December, which went straight in at No. 3 in the UK Singles charts on Christmas Day 2005, showing the song's enduring popularity.

In 1985 Jennings joined with USA for Africa to record " We Are the World ", but he left the studio due to a dispute over the song's lyrics that were to be sung in Swahili.

Michael Jackman, writer for Detroit's " Metro Times ," did an interview with Meatmen singer Tesco Vee, who said that the song's origins dated to the late 1970s and early 1980s in Detroit, when hardcore punk bands, unable to get booked in bars and in a city lacking all-ages clubs, would do " punk nights " at gay men's bars, creating what Vee called a " worlds collide " sort of thing.

The song's success drew Simon back to the United States to reunite with Garfunkel.

Despite the song's name, Poison Ivy wasn't the inspiration for this song but, due to the lyrics describing a girl with a very similar attitude to Ivy, it was quickly associated to the character.

* Rest Assured recorded a cover of the song in 1993 to coincide with the song's 60th birthday although somewhat different from the original due to the use of samples and a rap.

In 1968, they collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard on the film Sympathy for the Devil, which mixed Godard's political tracts with documentary footage of the song's evolution during the recording sessions at Olympic Studios in London.

" Writer Ariel Swartley views the song's verses as depicting the narrator as something of an " adolescent loser ... ruining his chances with the girl: he can't stop telling her about the humiliations, about the girls who led him on, about the waitress that got tired of him.

On the July 4 show in Gothenborg, Steven Van Zandt brought back the famous " double-mike " ditty he and Bruce used to do in the 1970s with the song's chorus.

The song's protagonist was a reservist returning home from the Iraq War and coming to terms with a life without a limb.

The band complied, with Mick Jagger ostentatiously rolling his eyes heavenward whenever he reached the song's one-night-only, clean refrain, " Let's spend some time together ".

The song's lyrics deal with depression and suicide, a noticeable departure from the toilet humor present in most of the other songs on Enema of the State.