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.

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.

In an interview Burke recalled the song's origins: " I used to do it in church when I was a kid and it was a march for the offering.

The song's origins not only come from television, but were also inspired by various other things, including Rush Limbaugh, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and Araya's wife.

The song's origins are believed to be as a ditty to poke fun at a courting couple, as sung by a mischievous local choir.

The song's origins are rooted in the historical French – German enmity, and it was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.

The song's exact origins are unknown.

The song's pop rock origins allowed it some crossover success, and it reached number 16 on the Modern Rock Tracks.

The prevalence of Burmese cover songs ( particularly from Asia nowadays ) has led to the adoption of " copy tune " and " own tune " to describe the origins of a song's melody.

There are conflicting stories about the song's origins.

Keenan essentially confirmed the song's origins in the Tapeworm project while also confirming that the song was covered and released by Puscifer in the same fashion as A Perfect Circle did with " Passive ," saying the following:

There are several accounts of the song's origins, most affected by sentimentality.

Appropriately for the song's origins as an Olympic anthem, Olympic gold medal-winning heptathlete Denise Lewis selected the song as one of her eight Desert Island Discs in February 2012.

According to Lennon, the song's origins can be found when the English journalist Kenneth Allsop made a remark that Lennon should write songs about his childhood.

The song's author and origins are unknown.

Southerners who shunned the song's low origins and comedic nature changed the lyrics, usually to focus on Southern pride and the war.

Meanwhile, many black musicologists have challenged the song's racist origins.

The oak in the song's title refers to the wood from which British warships were traditionally made in the age of sail.

The song's success brought Cannon himself back into the Stax Records studios in Memphis for his last recording that same year at age 79.

Justin Hayward, the " Nights In White Satin " song's composer and singer for The Moodies, wrote this in his own bed-sit at the age of 19 (" Late Lament " was written by the Moody Blues ' drummer, Graeme Edge ).

Postmodern and new age themes seem to have been explored within the song's lyrics, especially with regards to their incapability of articulating the concept of the truth, as well as the song's theme of meditation and relax.

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.

Only the vowel O is featured in the song's lyrics ; no other vowels are used.

The song's video was shown on Beavis and Butt-Head, where the band was described as " chicks " who are " cool.

Of particular note are his early Atlantic albums, such as The Clown, Tijuana Moods, and most notably Pithecanthropus Erectus, the title song of which contained one section that was freely improvised in a style unrelated to the song's melody or chordal structure.

The song's deliberately suggestive ( but oblique ) lyrics such as " I'm the tomcat and you're my li ' l ol ' pussy " and " Wild and warm is my pussy / My pussy is where it's at " are common for the genre, a tradition followed in R & B.

However, if they are able to maintain a very consistent tempo throughout, but fall slightly shy of having performed at the song's overall actual tempo, the resulting recording can often be time-stretched or condensed to fit the proper duration evenly so that it can be added to the mix of tracks, without the need for quantization ).

The song's words are written in Yorkshire dialect, its title translated as " On Ilkley Moor without a hat.

In the film, the four Beatles are first seen by themselves, performing the initial chorus and verses, and then are joined by the audience who appear as the last chorus concludes and coda begins ; the audience sings and claps along with the Beatles through the song's conclusion.

Taking its cue from the song's lyrics, organizers are calling the project, With A Little Love.

" But by song's end salvation has not been received, with the singer moaning " where are you going / come back again.

The song's trio of artists are Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, and Jamey Johnson.

The song's lyrics are meant as a vicious retaliation against the Christian-conservative website The Iconoclast, which hosted an article of the same name bashing Darrell after his death.

The recording features a conventional rock rhythm section of bass guitar and drums, although the rest of the instruments used are analog synthesizers, principally the Minimoog ( augmenting the song's recognisable bass riff ) and the Polymoog keyboard, providing austere synthetic string lines over the bass riff.

The translation of the song's refrain is " Your violence is just a silent cry for love / Your combat boots are craving for tenderness / You never learned to express yourself / And your parents never had time for you / Oh oh oh asshole ".

" As a result, the song's lyrics are progressively and painfully distorted as Freberg struggles to turn the classic song into a form that Tweedly will find acceptable " to the tiny tots " listening at home: " He don't, er, doesn't plant ' taters, er, potatoes … he doesn't plant cotton, er, cotting … and them-these-those that plants them are soon forgotting ," a lyric of which Freberg is particularly proud.

The song's lyrics are quoted at the beginning and end of the tale, and the ballad itself is cited as a fixture in the lives of the Scotch-Irish pioneers.

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.

The first section is rhythmically straightforward and is used to introduce the song's melodic and lyrical material ; here, verses are sung and the only improvisation heard occurs at the end of song lines, when the accordion or saxophone fills in.

The song's lyrics are based on a simple concept ; a vision of sunlight breaking through storm clouds.

A popular dance in which the arms are used to spell out the four letters of the song's title may have much to do with this.