But I always found "Finian's Rainbow" to be a more appropriate touchstone for the family, especially the song "Look to the Rainbow," with the moving lyric, "Follow the fellow who follows a dream".
The historian Bernhard Kramer in The Journal of Olympic History of 2004 was unable to trace the author, apart from noting that she had lived in Kew in Surrey and had once written a "moving lyric" about her dog, Mungo.
This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a particularly extreme or challenging piece of music – it's a ballad with a beautiful, lambent melody and profoundly moving lyrics that address a universal theme.
In addition to these elegiac poems, and some candid and moving lyrics, Porter's work from the 1970s became more meditative, packed with allusions to myth, philosophy, art and music.
Sign up for the BrilliantICE, delivered to your inbox daily.
In a review for the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange, Roberta Schwartz said that The Hero in You contains some of the best melodies and most moving lyrics of Paul's career.
When I'm choosing tracks for a road trip mixtape I almost invariably end up with some jazz and spoken word, GSH has a knack with deeply moving lyrics show humanity, and conscience, that take you outside your every-day reality to think deeply about things.
She knew all of Lepa's dance moves, lyrics and hairstyles.
It was the most intelligent and most intriguing thing I've read in a while, moving between lyric poetry, aphorism, and memoir, and with thoughts worth stealing on just about every page.
In Wright's later books he moves among lyric personae, having liberated himself, in his earlier work, from even the shadow of literal autobiography.
In 1981, while still performing, he became the chairman of the opera department at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he remained until moving to the Lyric's opera studio 10 years later.
