Sentences with phrase «folk song lyrics»

Taking folk song lyrics to heart, Bill Benoit has gone «from Bonavista to Vancouver Island», as the Nova Scotia native has been appointed the new executive officer of the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB).

Not exact matches

Then it's time for a «hymn» — or whatever one calls religious music that is not a dirge, not a joyous folk song, but a pop ditty whose beat and back - up would fit it to the format of any middle - of - the - road radio station, were it not for the lyrics (try «I Am the Righteousness of God in Christ» to the tune of «Up, Up and Away»).

Composed by James Newton Howard, the haunting folk song's lyrics are by Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins, while «Ho Hey» singers The Lumineers collaborated on the track.

[Author] Suzanne Collins wrote the lyrics and the idea was that it was an old Appalachian folk song that her father had taught her,» director Francis Lawrence said of the song during an interview with AOL Build.

It's also a rarity to hear acoustic folk music, heavy with lyrics, on a game's soundtrack, even if some of these songs aren't directly in the game.

Selected songs address questions of southern culture, identity, history, folk life and lifestyle, featuring lyrics and compositional and performance styles that have helped define what it means to be southern.

But how did a traditional Scots folk song — with lyrics that many people scarcely understand — emerge as one of the world's most enduring popular songs?

Adaptations of the folk standard «House of the Rising Sun» abound, but Moscow - born artist Kon Trubkovich was particularly fascinated by a video he recently found online of a group of Russians singing the song with their own made - up lyrics.

The quiet, but powerful music of Timmy Straw evidences her interest in lyric poetry, religious cadence, minimalist piano, the folk song, pop music and everyday speech.

All lyrics and music on the album are written by Martin Creed, with the exception of the New Shutters which is Martin's arrangement of a traditional Neapolitan folk song.

The song's dense, abstract, almost impenetrable lyrics have a folk quality, listing things the singer is not, or has lost, akin to the hybrid and transgressive qualities in Weathersby's art that are ultimately resolved in his finished works:

Her projects are also shaped via an engagement with literary narrative in its many forms: folk and fairy tales, song lyrics, science fiction, and mythology.

I used a melody from an old Eastern European folk song and my own lyrics to record myself singing and playing the guitar.