He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

The songs tell personal stories of life in the wide open country of Australia.

The popular culture showed a strong interest in folk songs and ballads ( folk songs that tell a story ).

Barbara Jean gets through the first couple of songs all right, but then begins to tell rambling stories about her childhood instead of starting the next song.

The story I am going to tell is a horrible one: I beg that daughters and fathers should hold themselves aloof, while I sing, or if they find my songs enchanting, let them refuse to believe this part of my tale, and suppose that it never happened: or else, if they believe that it did happen, they must believe also in the punishment that followed.

But when Mars ' supposed new wife was brought into his chamber and Mars removed the veil he found to his chagrin that it was not Minerva but old Anna, which is why people tell coarse jokes and sing coarse songs at Anna Perenna's festivities.

Kaufman is a struggling performer whose act fails in nightclubs because, while the audience wants comedy, he sings children's songs and refuses to tell conventional jokes.

The songs tell the story of a young man who, like Vedder, learns that he had been lied to about his paternity and that his real father is dead, grows up to become a serial killer, and is eventually imprisoned and sentenced to death.

Becker and Fagen would tell an interviewer in 1995 that the songs hadn't been reissued because they felt the tracks were " stinko.

Legendary session musicians and artists gathered to celebrate the studio's history, perform songs, and tell stories about the recording sessions.

She often wrote in the style derived from traditional English broadside ballads, which tell current news to the tunes of traditional songs.

His one-man shows usually consisted of stories he would tell, often based on the life of his youth in a small town in Limburg, with a typical panoplia of family members, neighbours, friends ( some enemies ), cats and dogs, which he presented in an irresistibly hilarious manner ; and interspersed with simple, charming, crystal clear songs about life, love, and happiness.

In an April 18, 2012 interview with Blabbermouth, Nergal stated that the new album's possible release date to be in the middle of 2013, and also stated that " But, I can tell you that there are at least three or four rough sketches of songs, just ideas.

Song cycles written by popular musicians are a short series of songs that tell a story or focus on a particular theme.

These songs usually deal with religion, but some of them tell tales of how two lovers ( male and female ) come together.

Greenlandic Inuit folk songs are performed to tell stories, play games and tease or charm others.

Several of his most famous songs tell of the futility or loss of war.

According to the biographers, for hours Ramakrishna would reminisce about his own eventful spiritual life, tell tales, explain Vedantic doctrines with extremely mundane illustrations, raise questions and answer them himself, crack jokes, sing songs, and mimic the ways of all types of worldly people, keeping the visitors were enthralled.

In 2002, Q magazine named Badly Drawn Boy in their list of the " 50 Bands to See Before You Die ", although this was as part of a sub-list of " 5 Bands That Could Go Either Way " on account of Gough's tendency to talk and tell stories for extended periods in concert rather than play songs.

Poetic songs like “ Aragón ”, “ Canto a la Libertad ” ( Song for Freedom ) or “ Me dicen que no quieres ” ( They tell me you don ’ t want to ) are known all around the Iberian Peninsula.

Reviews of live music performances are typically short articles that tell readers about the performers or group ( s ) that were involved and the pieces or songs that were performed.

Folk music is the joint of the traditional songs of a community that express through a poetic character their beliefs and tell their history to other people and generations.

Although considered secular, the lyrics of zhungdra songs often tell Buddhist allegories, such as Yak Legbi Lhadar, in which the singer tells of his former life as a yak slaughtered in connection with a non-Buddhist ritual in the Gasa District.

Traditional songs of Christmas often tell of the bull and the donkey warming the infant with their breath.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

It consisted of racy and often satirical spoken ( English ) dialogue, interspersed with songs that are deliberately kept very short to minimize disruptions to the flow of the story.

Diddley was an excellent story teller whose stories varied from time to time, however, Diddley contended to friends and family that he was not trying to double-cross Sullivan and attributed the " misunderstanding " to the fact that ; when he saw " Bo Diddley " on a cue card, he was under the impression he was to perform two songs, " Bo Diddley " and " Sixteen Tons ".

" Commonly, concept albums incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

Both songs then proceed to proclaim the birth of Christ in the present tense and elaborate upon the story of the nativity as occasion for rejoicing.

The beginnings of the Spanish musical were focused on romantic Spanish archetypes: Andalusian villages and landscapes, gypsys, " bandoleros ", and copla and other popular folk songs included in story development.

Hammerstein was probably the best " book writer " in Broadway history – he made the story, not the songs or the stars, central to the musical and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form.

The story of Passover, with its message that slaves can go free, and that the future can be better than the present, has inspired a number of religious sermons, prayers, and songs — including spirituals ( what used to be called " Negro Spirituals "), within the African-American community.

Elements of the story — known as Gamehendge — grew to include an additional eight songs.

Paul Schmidt adapted the text from the works of Lewis Carroll ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, in particular ), with songs by Waits and Kathleen Brennan presented as intersections with the text rather than as expansions of the story, as would be the case in conventional musical theater.

According to Kawamori, his pitch for the series was simple: " if Macross was robotic mecha and love songs, why not a story about robotic mecha and divining powers?

With the series character designs finalized and the story set, Yoko Kanno was selected to write the songs for the series, including the background songs which she co-wrote with Hajime Mizoguchi.

The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork.

The innovative and rich poetry and poetic speeches, chants, songs, lamentations, hymns, beseeching, praising, pleading, riddles and annotations provided by Scheherazade or her story characters are unique to the Arabic version of the book.

In 2003 the Flemish company Studio 100 created a musical called Three Little Pigs ( Dutch: De 3 Biggetjes ), which follows the three daughters of the pig with the house of stone with new original songs, introducing a completely new story loosely based on the original story.

The story features several other partial songs and a number of titles attributed to Rhysling.

The story has been adapted into various stories, songs and films.

The manuscript contains eight miniatures: the wheel of fortune ( which actually is an illustration from the songs CB 14 – 18, but was placed by the book binder as the cover ), an imaginative forest, a pair of lovers, scenes from the story of Dido and Aeneas, a scene of drinking beer, and three scenes of playing games – dice, tables, and chess.

Four years earlier, Boris Karloff starred as Mr. Darling / Captain Hook in a different musical treatment of the story, with songs by Leonard Bernstein.

Some story points were built around specific songs, such as in " Legends of the Mall ", where Cyndi Lauper's " Girls Just Want to Have Fun " became a major plot point for a fantasy sequence.