According to statistics collected in 2009, there are 35, 684 song rooms in Korea with an average of 1. 9 million people participating each day.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).

Southern Death Cult's singles, demos, and some live recordings were later collected onto a ten song compilation album by Beggars Banquet, entitled Southern Death Cult.

Some of Martin's writings were collected and set to music by Dominick Argento in his song cycle Miss Manners on Music .< ref >

The song was first collected in England in its version as " The Unfortunate Rake " by Henry Hammond by a Mr. William Cutis at Lyme Regis, Dorset in March 1906.

By the end of 1930 they had sold 300, 000 records in the U. S. Realizing that he would benefit financially with each new song he collected and copyrighted, A. P.

The centennial year also saw the introduction of its new school song, written by Nathalie Siah ' 10, the House Centennial spirit pennant, as well as the House Cup, awarding the House who collected the most points ( athletic, literary, and spirit ) over the school year.

Táncház began with the folk song collecting of musicians like Béla Halmos and Ferenc Sebő, who collected rural instrumental and dance music for popular, urban consumption, along with the dance collectors György Martin and Sándor Timár.

* Download recording of a courtship song from the Library of Congress ' Omaha Indian Music Collection ; performed by George Miller in 1897, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche

Meera's songs are in a simple form called a ch ' ( verse ), a term used for a small spiritual song, usually composed in simple rhythms with a repeating refrain, collected in her Padavali.

Research in Kodaly Envoy by Lum Chee-Hoo has found that sometime between 1922 and 1931, members of an organization called the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals collected a song from the South Carolina coast.

In early December, introduced TVE Spanish Television Anniversary of ' 50 ' where Rose gave a tribute to the biggest ' Rocío Jurado ', singing the song " like a wave ," at the end of that month and in the same television network a special gala was held to select the best album of 2006 15 Records 15 singers, the audience, with their calls, I chose to feel alive, as the best album of the year with a rate of 27 % after one year at the gala ' Disco of the year 2007 ', held on 26 December that year, collected the ' Best album of 2006 ' ( I feel alive ).

Folk songs were collected there from the 19th century but, though it probably had more attention than other northern counties, its rich heritage of industrial folk song was relatively neglected.

From around 1957 until quite recently, Samuel Armistead ( UC Davis ) with colleagues Joseph Silverman and Israel Katz collected the Judeo-Spanish song tradition from informants in North America, Turkey, the Balkans, Greece, North Africa, and Israel.

Versions of the song were collected in the 1920s in Northern Ireland by song collector Sam Henry.

Also, such a song could be used in the fight then taking place with those forcing the Rhine ; it could be used in a noble way to inflame the heart of the Austrians to new heights of devotion to the princes and fatherland, and to incite to combat, and to increase, the mob of volunteer soldiers who had been collected by a general proclamation.

Henderson collected the lyrics to " D-Day Dodgers ," a satirical song to the tune of " Lili Marlene ", attributed to Lance-Sergeant Harry Pynn, who served in Italy.

A comprehensive fictionalized account was collected in the 1858 popular song " Jeg vil sjunge om en Helt ", and a great number of fictional plays and novels were subsequently published.

These song books often included arrangements of songs he had collected with piano accompaniment composed by Sharp himself, arrangements intended for choral singing.

* The Gospel song " There's No Hiding Place Down Here " is a traditional Negro spiritual, originally collected in 1907 and first printed in 1915, and popularized in a 1934 recording by The Original Carter Family.

* In the novella " Voluntary Committal ", collected in 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill ( writer ), it appears in the song lyrics " The ants go marching two-by-two, They walked across the Leng plateau ".

He also organized his collection by singer rather than subject and included short biographical sketches of the performers with their collected songs, thus focusing on the singer ’ s role in the composition of the song.

The phrase comes from a Devon folk song " Widecombe Fair ", collected by Sabine Baring-Gould.

The friendship of the younger Crébillon helped broaden his horizons, and the establishment in 1729 of the famous " Caveau " gave him a field for the display of his fine talent for popular song.

The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i. e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

The song tells the story about the Passenger Pigeon's extinction and Martha's life in her cage in Cincinnati Zoo.

* Shel Silverstein's song, " The Wonderful Soup Stone " tells a version of this story.

Fort Minor's song " Kenji ", from the album The Rising Tied ( 2005 ), tells the true story of Mike Shinoda's family and their experiences before, during, and after World War II, including their imprisonment at Manzanar.

About halfway through the song, Simon tells the band to stop playing because of his embarrassment.

Deep Purple's famous song " Smoke on the Water " tells of the events of 1971, when a Frank Zappa fan with a flare gun set the Montreux Casino on fire.

* The song " The Third Temptation of Paris " by Alesana tells the story of Helen and Paris from the viewpoint of Paris.

* Blind Guardian's song " The Curse of Feanor ", featured on the album Nightfall in Middle Earth, tells of Fëanor swearing to go after Morgoth.

* Circa 1948, Stan Jones transposed the Wild Hunt into a country song " Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend " which tells the story to a group of cowboys who chase the devil's herd of cattle through the night skies, tormented by madness and thirst.

Aunt Lucy tells him he has to find Orville, and recommends singing Orville's favorite song.

The song tells of disappointment, as the lyrics, " Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky ", show someone pining for her man to return.

The song tells a true story of an adolescent acquaintance of composer Frank Zappa who habitually saved his own extracted mucus on the pane of his bedroom window.

He wrote " The Father of a Boy Named Sue ", in which he tells the story from the original song from the father's point of view, and the 1962 song " Boa Constrictor ", sung by a man who is being swallowed by a snake ( recorded by the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary ) although it is now better known as a children's playground chant.

In their next gig, in an amphitheater at an amusement park ( second-billed behind a puppet show ), David tells the sparse crowd that they're witnessing a new birth, having renamed the band ' Spinal Tap Mark 2 ' as he and the remaining members are forced to perform a fusion-esque, experimental song entitled, ' Jazz Odyssey ' due to the lack of Tufnel's presence and material.

The Ramayana has inspired works of film as well, most prominently the North American Sita Sings the Blues, which tells the story supporting Sita through song.

* Let's " Hear " it For Robin Hood ( 1974 )- Disneyland Records release, Prima tells the story of Robin Hood through spoken word and song.

The song tells the tale of a disconsolate singer with woman troubles and includes the lines:

The The Residents ' song " Death in Barstow ," tells the story of two friends who visit and fall asleep in Barstow.

The walk took its name from the Lyke Wake Dirge, probably Yorkshire's oldest dialect verse, which takes its name from the watching wake over the corpse ( lyke ) The song tells of the soul's passage through the afterlife.

Cross Canadian Ragweed's song " 42 Miles ", off their album Highway 377, tells the story of the band's breaking down in Groom, Texas, and interacting with Keith Barkley at Keith's Auto in Groom.

The two entertainers offer to perform the song of The Merryman and his Maid: it tells of a lovelorn merryman who is jilted by a maiden in favour of an arrogant lord, but the latter rejects her, and she returns on her knees to the merryman to beg for his love, and all ends happily.

The song was originally written and performed in the style of a Jamaican ballad ; and tells, in simple verse-chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love.

" The song tells the story of the FBI investigation and relates it with song lyrics by Marilyn Manson and Eminem which some blamed for the Columbine High School massacre.