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Lyrics. Common modern versions include: Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell. And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her; Peter learned to read and spell,
Charles Deas' The Trapper and his Family (1845) depicts a voyageur and his Native American wife and children. Lyrics from prior to 1860, given by Whall (1910) were reported as follows: Missouri, she's a mighty river. Away you rolling river. The redskins' camp, lies on its borders. Ah-ha, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri.
—Review of Stevie Wonder's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) At the end of 1962, when Wonder was 12 years old, he joined the Motortown Revue, touring the "Chitlin' Circuit" of theatres across America that accepted black artists. At the Regal Theater, Chicago, his 20-minute performance was recorded and released in May 1963 as the album ...
Children playing the game are shown in the opening sequence of the 1983 film based upon that novel. In popular culture. In the 1931 film Street Scene, the opening and closing sequences show children playing and singing "The Farmer in the Dell". The closing lyrics are changed to "The farmer kills the wife." and "The wife kills the child.".
1700 in Pennsylvania. " There's a Hole in My Bucket " (or " ...in the Bucket ") is a humorous, classic children's folk song based on a protracted dialogue between two characters, Henry [a] and Liza, about a leaky bucket. Various versions exist but they differ only slightly, all describing a "deadlock" situation essentially as follows: Henry's ...
"It Is Well With My Soul", also known as "When Peace, Like A River", is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss.First published in Gospel Hymns No. 2 by Ira Sankey and Bliss (1876), it is possibly the most influential and enduring in the Bliss repertoire and is often taken as a choral model, appearing in hymnals of a wide variety of Christian fellowships.
Traditional. " Jimmy Crack Corn " or " Blue-Tail Fly " is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's ...
Audio. "Once in a Lifetime" on YouTube. " Once in a Lifetime " is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, produced and cowritten by Brian Eno. It was released in January 1981 through Sire Records as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album, Remain in Light (1980). Eno and Talking Heads developed "Once in a Lifetime ...