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.

However, although the origins are difficult to trace, today fado is by many regarded as a simply a form of song which can be about anything, but must follow a certain structure.

Further, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt shares many characteristics with " My Name is Jan Jansen " a song that can trace its origin to Swedish vaudeville in the late 19th century.

He breaks into song, giving suggestions on how to deal with what hunts them, but when the sound system breaks down, he crawls backstage to trace a wiring fault.

There are yellow circles with orange tails on the trace line ( called " phrase bars ") corresponding to the rhythm of the song.

When police released a tape of his voice in an attempt to trace him, a music group mixed it into a rap song dedicated to " Dagobert ", during his later trial he would explain that he wanted to be like the Disney character and " swim in money ".

Neither the opening with The Isotopes nor the finale with the rather dire song help this one at all, and frankly, if it wasn't for the superb parody of Village of the Damned, and the kids ' revenge by revealing their family's secrets, it'd sink without trace.

However, the melody and events depicted in the song are so similar that most musicologists believe that these two songs trace back to one original source.

The song has also been widely performed and recorded by bluegrass musicians, as many songs thought of as traditionally bluegrass songs actually trace back to what is now known as " old-time " music.

These feiseanna were a rich opportunity for storytellers to reach a large audience, and often warriors would recount their exploits in combat, clansmen would trace family genealogies, and bards and balladeers would lead the groups in legends, stories, and song.

Barack Obama used " Hold On, I'm Comin '" as a theme song on the campaign trail, until Sam Moore requested that he stop using it.

Charles Chilton, producer of the film, created a radio musical of World War I songs called The Long Long Trail ( 1962 ), named for the popular music hall song, There's a long, long trail a winding.

On this point I could get no information, though I asked many questions, until at last, one day when I was being rowed across from Beaufort to Ladies ' Island, I found myself, with delight, on the actual trail of a song.

The album includes two new songs, " Close to the Land ", the theme song of the PBS documentary television series America's Heartland, and " Lone Cowboy ", a song that reflects Murphey's experiences as a solo artist performing throughout the West at music festivals, cowboy gatherings, historical theaters, and trail rides.

The saga is told with the " Inma Ngintaka ", a dance of Ngintaka's journey of creation that includes a song whose stanzas follow his travels through the land, thus the 500km trail is called a Songline.

The trail is the subject of a country song, " Old Chisholm Trail.

The Devil helps him escape, but winds up chasing him just as the law does ; several lines of the song are ambiguous, and could refer to either law enforcement or servants of Satan, such as " I was trailed by twenty hounds ", which could refer to either police dogs sniffing his trail, or mythical hellhounds.

the doors of the D train slid shut, and as I dropped into a seat and, exhaling, looked up across the aisle, the whole aviary in my head burst into song.

*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

Ticket inspectors on the train line through Aberdour were known for their sing song refrain: " Half an hour, Half an hour, Half an hour to Aberdour-tickets please.

* 1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.

* The Stompin ' Tom Connors song " To It And At It " mentions a man who " can't afford the train, he's sittin ' on a streetcar, but he's eastbound just the same.

Bailey then stepped up to the mike to play " The Pan American Blues ", his song inspired by the Pan American, a L & N Railroad express / passenger train.

* In the System Of A Down song " Deer Dance ", about police brutality against peaceful protest, Zinn is paraphrased in the line " We can't afford to be neutral on a moving train " and in their song " AD. D " from their album Steal This Album!

Colfax in Springdale, Pennsylvania, by the Post Office and train station in Palatine, Illinois and a Colfax Avenue in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where the school fight song contains the phrase " of that Colfax school " because the high school is located on Colfax.

The train station sequence in the 1955 film classic Oklahoma !, with Gene Nelson singing and dancing the song " Kansas City " partly atop a moving train, was filmed in Elgin.

This formula — using rhyming Maine and train, and Bangor as an edge destination — first appeared in the popular 1871 song Riding Down From Bangor ( or Riding Up From Bangor ) by Louis Shreve Osborne.

A fragment of the lyric ( changed to " Riding down from Bangor on the midnight train ...") appears in the quodlibet of the arrangement for orchestra and chorus of Charles Ives's song " The Circus Band ," though apparently with a different melody.

" The most recent play on this formula was a song by Garrison Keillor, sung on his radio show Prairie Home Companion on May 3, 2008, which went " Bangor Maine, Bangor Maine ; Take a boat or ride the train ; Take a slicker, it might rain ; In Bangor, Maine "

The Dutch singer Willem Duyn's De Eerste Trein Naar Zandvoort (" First train to Zandvoort ")-modeled on the American song Chattanooga Choo Choo and chronicling chaos and mayhem on the first seaside train-was a hit in the summer of 1983.

Spencer is mentioned in the song " The Wreck of Old 97 " as the ultimate endpoint of train trip which is never reached.

* The town is the subject of a song called " To Morrow ", about a man who wishes to take a train " to Morrow " and return " tomorrow " night, playing on the similar pronunciations of the two phrases.

In August 2008 Burke told Mojo magazine: " I wrote that on the train, ' cos I had no song and I started thinking on old songs that I could do uptempo and I thought, ( sings Gospel song pacier, with horn arrangement ) so I had to keep that in my head ' til I got to the studio.

A special delivery letter was at the desk waiting for me in the hotel ... so all of these things came about very quickly and very drastically .” Burke completed the song on the train back to Chicago for Cooke's funeral, On 2 April 1965, it became his only # 1 hit, where it remained for three weeks.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Railroad Song references Haggard, " Well I'm a ride this train Lord until I find out / What Jimmy Rodgers and the Hag was all about ", Nuthin ' Fancy Nuthin ' Fancy.

* In 1980 the videoclip of the song " Morning train ( 9 to 5 )" from Sheena Easton was filmed.

Michael Williams ' book On the slow train takes its name from the Flanders and Swann song.

Finally, after another song from Nichols or Bentley, there was a situation comedy sketch worked up from the clichés of a literary or cinematic genre ; for example, later TIFH programmes included a sketch about restoration England, with Charles II, Nell Gwynne and the Puritan keeper of the Privy Purse (" anything TV can do, we can do later "); or a spoof spy story set on an international sleeper from London to Paris ("… as I moved through the train I gazed at a handsome film star, slumbering in his compartment, and a thought struck me — whether you're great or whether you're humble, when you sleep upright you dribble ").

Westfall, who at the time was a student at Pittsburg State University wrote the song on a trip home to Kansas on a train from Philmont influenced by the " click-click, click-click " of the tracks.