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Six Months in a Leaky Boat. " Six Months in a Leaky Boat " is a song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz. It was released in May 1982 as the second single from the group's eighth studio album, Time and Tide . The song became a top-10 hit in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, going on to be voted the fifth-best New Zealand song ever in the ...
September Song. by Crawford Music Corp., New York [3] " September Song " is an American standard popular song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. It was introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical production Knickerbocker Holiday. [1] The song has been recorded by numerous singers and instrumentalists.
See media help. "Take On Me" is a synth-pop song that includes acoustic and electric guitars and keyboards, [ 9 ][ 10 ] written at a tempo of 169 beats per minute. [ 11 ] The lyrics are a plea for love [ 12 ] and constructed in a verse–chorus form with a bridge before the final chorus.
According to the co-writer and longtime group member Bob Gaudio, the song's lyrics were originally set in 1933 with the title "December 5th, 1933," and celebrated the repeal of Prohibition, [6] but after the band revolted against what Gaudio would admit was a "silly" lyric being paired with an instrumental groove they knew would be a hit, [7] Parker, who had not written a song lyric before by ...
The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) " The Twelve Days of Christmas " is an English Christmas carol. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with ...
Wake Me Up When September Ends. " Wake Me Up When September Ends " is a song by the American rock band Green Day and the fourth single from their seventh studio album, American Idiot (2004). A rock ballad, the song was written by the band's lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, and is about the death of his father in September 1982 and his life ...
All Along the Watchtower. " All Along the Watchtower " is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding (1967). The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. The song's lyrics, which in its original version contain twelve lines, feature a conversation between a joker and a thief.
1595. Composer (s) Thomas Morley. Lyricist (s) based on Orazio Vecchi. "Now is the month of maying" is one of the most famous of the English balletts (a light dancelike part song similar to a madrigal, frequently with a 'fa-la-la' chorus). It was written by Thomas Morley and published in 1595. It is based on the canzonet So ben mi ch'a bon ...