The Circle Game Joni Mitchell Yesterday a child came out to wander Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We’re captive on…
Category: Song Lyrics as Literature
Joni Mitchell – Songs As Literature
The Circle Game Joni Mitchell Yesterday a child came out to wander Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We’re captive on…
Songs As Literature – Focus on House As Theme
Flies On The Butter (You Can’t Go Home Again) Wynona Judd Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter A hole in the screen door big as your fist And flies on the butter Mama baking sugar cookies, we were watching cartoons I heard her holler from the kitchen “Which one of you youngen’s wants to…
Freddie Mercury & Queen Songs as Literature – Don’t Stop Me Now & Bohemian Rhapsody – Songs as Literature
Don’t Stop Me Now Frederick Mercury Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time I feel alive And the world, I’ll turn it inside out, yeah I’m floating around in ecstasy So (Don’t stop me now) (Don’t stop me) ‘Cause I’m having a good time Having a good time [Verse 1] I’m a shooting…
I Am the Walrus – John Lenon – Songs as Literature – Focus on Allusion and Juxtaposition
I Am the Walrus John Lenon and Paul McCartney I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together See how they run like pigs from a gun See how they fly I’m crying Sitting on a corn flake Waiting for the van to come Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody…
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan – Nobel Prize in 2015 – Songs As Literature – Focus on Imagery
“In 2015 the Nobel Prize committee shocked the world by awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to a singer.” … [Bob Dylan A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Oh, where have you been, my darling young one? I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve…
Beale Street Blues – W.C. Handy – Songs As Literature
Beale Street Blues W.C. Handy I’ve seen the lights of gay Broadway Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay I’ve strolled the Prado, I’ve gambled on the Bourse; The seven wonders of the world I’ve seen And many are the places I have been Take my advice, folks, and see Beale Street first! You’ll…
Flies On the Butter – A Song by the Judds – Songs As Literature
“In 2015 the Nobel Prize committee shocked the world by awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to a singer.” … [Bob Dylan] Dylan did not go to receive the award, but he sent another folk singer Patti Smith to accept the award. Patti Smith’s performance was flawed, and Dylan’s lyrics would not fill a novel….