Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

Even in its most conventional appearance, the guests' song of praise to Marina, there are a few female dissenters criticizing the princess for her coldness.

The song is one of the most beloved and popular of the many American patriotic songs.

" () or " A. B. C's " () is one of the best-known English language alphabet songs, and perhaps the one most frequently referred to as " the alphabet song ", especially in the United States.

Other notable acts include Ali B ( who has been featured on other artists ' tracks, most significantly with Marco Borsato on the song " Wat zou je doen?

The song Waltzing Matilda, which is about a swagman and squatters, is probably Australia's best internationally known and most well-loved song.

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

The most common use of the term ballad in modern pop music is for an emotional love song.

Today, the song remains one of his most popular works.

On the other hand " Gülpembe ", composed by Kurtalan Ekspres bassist Ahmet Güvenç, a requiem for Manço's grandmother, caught older audiences and probably is the artist's most popular song, competing perhaps only with " Dağlar Dağlar ".

Their most famous hit is the song " Fish Heads ", which was named as one of the top 100 videos of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

Eventually this song became " Bro goz va zadoù " (" Old land of my fathers ") and is the most widely accepted Breton anthem.

The first single from Nobody's Daughter was " Skinny Little Bitch ", which was the most added song on alternative rock radio in early March 2010.

It remains the group's most commercially successful song.

The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.

Bluegrass bass lines are usually simple, typically staying on the root and fifth of each chord throughout most of a song.

It includes most of her hits from 1988 to 2008 including a new version of " Aníron ", a song created for " The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring " in 2001.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

Its most celebrated song is a Parsons-Harris duet cover of " Love Hurts ", a song that long remained in Harris ' solo repertoire.

* " Hee-Haw's All-Jug Band ": A musical segment, featuring most of the female cast members, singing a comical song, in which the punch line differed each week.

" Written by Keith Green, Todd Fishkind and Randy Stonehill, the song would later be closely identified with Green, yet it was at Green's insistence that Keaggy's rendition be the first released recording.

Van Morrison's influence can be heard in this song, as " 4th of July, Asbury Park ( Sandy )" closely parallels his romanticization of Belfast in such songs as " Cyprus Avenue " and " Madame George " from the 1968 album, Astral Weeks.

* Italian progressive rock band Mad Puppet made a song called " The Masque of the Red Death " on their début album Masque, which closely follows the storyline as well.

The song, however, only came eighth in a closely fought national selection.

Its inclusion of a villain character, Stormella, and a love interest, Zoey, for Rudolph as well as a small sidekick, Slyly, and a strong protector character, Leonard, are very derivative of the Rankin-Bass adaptation of the story as opposed to the original tale and song ( the characters of Stormella, Zoey, Arrow, Slyly and Leonard closely parallel the Rankin-Bass characters of The Bumble, Clarice, Fireball, Hermey the Dentist, and Yukon Cornelius respectively ).

The song, which has been closely associated with motorcycles ever since, introduced to rock lyrics the signature term " heavy metal " ( though not about a kind of music, but about a motorcycle: " I like smoke and lightning, heavy metal thunder, racin ' with the wind ...").

* Edmund Blackadder wrote on Sputnikmusic. com that Farewell was " Rush's masterpiece ( closely followed by Hemispheres )", describing the instrumentation as " absolutely brilliant, with every musician at the peak of their talents " and praised the album for its " wide variety of different song types and structures ".

The earliest compositional use of the technique was in the first version of Engelbert Humperdinck's 1897 melodrama Königskinder ( in the 1910 version it was replaced by conventional singing ), where it may have been intended to imitate a style already in use by singers of lieder and popular song, but it is more closely associated with the composers of the Second Viennese School.

" Hoffman wrote several pop songs with which Klaus is closely identified: " The Nomi Song ", " Total Eclipse ", " After The Fall ", and " Simple Man ", the title song of Nomi's second RCA French LP.

It song list and order sticks very closely to the 1982 Song and Dance version, with the addition of the finale song " Dreams Never Run On Time ", itself a rewrite of the song from the 2003 version " Somewhere, Someplace, Sometime ".

The lyrics of the song are very closely related to Irish politics of the 1680s and ' 90s.

Short-toed Treecreeper is one of a group of four very similar Holarctic treecreepers, including the closely related North American Brown Creepers, and has five subspecies differing in appearance and song.

The Flamecrest or Taiwan Firecrest ( Regulus goodfellowi ) of Taiwan has sometimes been viewed as a race of the Common Firecrest ; however, the Flamecrest's territorial song, which resembles those of the Himalayan races of the Goldcrest, and genetic data indicate that the Flamecrest is closely related to the Himalayan Goldcrest and only distantly to the two Firecrest species.

It became so closely associated with the series that people frequently and erroneously believe it was a Civil War song.

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a specific form of work, either sung while conducting a task ( often to coordinate timing ) or a song linked to a task or trade which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

Collaboration takes different forms: Some composers and lyricists work closely together on the song, with each having an input into both words and tune.

In the modern era, East Timorese music has been closely associated with the independence movement ; for example, the band Dili Allstars released a song that became an anthem in the build-up to the referendum on independence in 2000, while the United Nations commissioned a song called " Hakotu Ba " ( by Lahane ) to encourage people to register to vote in the referendum.

However, " Over the Rainbow " would eventually become the signature song most closely identified with Garland, and she would perform it for the next thirty years, until her death in 1969.

Most recently, he performed at his Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri, which was named after the Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini song " Moon River ", with which he is closely identified.

The Sri Lanka Bush Warbler has sometimes been placed in the genus Bradypterus ; it appears to be closely related to that genus, but differs in structure ( relatively shorter-tailed and longer-billed ), plumage ( unmarked ) and song.