Sentence examples for altered lyrics from inspiring English sources

During the 1930s a number of "singing cowboy" film stars, of whom Gene Autry was the best known, took country music and with suitably altered lyrics made it into a synthetic and adventitious "western" music.

But it can rev up familiar arrangements, as it did with "Tangled Up in Blue" (which had altered lyrics) or pull off variations: putting a Celtic-Appalachian banjo into "High Water (for Charley Patton)," making "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" into something like a folk minuet.

The Overly Attached Girlfriend craze was born after Laina posted a video of herself singing along to Justin Bieber's song Girlfriend, but with altered lyrics detailing the lengths she would go to in order to keep an eye on her man.

It features altered lyrics, though it maintains the chorus and melody of Gaga's version.

The band's lawyers sent Shine a copy of the new, altered lyrics.

The cover of the song features altered lyrics that appear to illustrate a suicide scene.

For example, "Mr. Moonlight" has a much quicker tempo, a guitar-based instrumental break, and an intentionally altered lyric with Lennon proclaiming he is on his "nose" instead of his "knees"; "Roll Over Beethoven" was described as "never taken at a more breakneck pace".

Although a lot of Smiths fans aren't too keen on the fact they altered the lyrics.

He altered the lyrics to say, "Everything's going her way," and encouraged the audience in a singalong.

Hail! Rock 'n' Roll," Mr. Berry stood by as Mr. Cray altered the lyrics, giving the count properly as "three-two".

And when Sting altered the lyrics to one of the older songs, singing "Welcome to the Andy Summers show" in a verse of "So Lonely," it was a reminder of why ages passed before this reunion tour.