Sentence examples for song ballad from inspiring English sources
The capitol rotunda was filled with schoolchildren wearing frontier bonnets and Davy Crockett coonskin hats, getting ready to perform Marty Robbins's song "Ballad of the Alamo".
Bob Dylan's song Ballad of a Thin Man includes the refrain: "Something is happening here/But you don't know what it is/Do you, Mr. Jones?" Like many Dylan songs, its literal meaning is opaque, yet it seems appropriate as a descriptor of the changes afoot in the C-suite, in 2014 and for years to come.
In February 2012 the band released a cover of the Bob Dylan song Ballad of Hollis Brown as part of a benefit for Amnesty International.
Chicago folk singer Steve Goodman wrote the song "Ballad of Flight 191 (They Know Everything About It)" in response to the crash and the subsequent investigation as the inaugural song for a series of topical songs which aired on National Public Radio in 1979.
Heylin writes that in the song "Ballad of Easy Rider", co-written by Dylan and Roger McGuinn two years earlier, Dylan had claimed that he was content to watch while "The river flows, flows to the sea/Wherever it flows, that's where I want to be".
Humorous and lewd songs, versified tales, folk songs, ballads, and others form a lively body of compositions.
Members of the Traveller community in Scotland have been vociferous guardians of oral culture: folk songs, ballads and stories.
The feeling is that of re-creating the DNA of American song, in the traditional numbers that would normally be credited to "Anon".: protest songs, ballads, storytelling tunes.
Organized chaos is integral to much music of Ives, who wove American folk songs, ballads, marches and hymns into daringly experimental works.
The kaleidoscope of tunes includes Polish dances, Hungarian songs, ballads in Slovak, mealtime arias labeled "Ad mensam," marches, preludes, even a Faust ballet.
American jazz had lyric players like Lester Young, demonic ones like Coleman Hawkins, and incandescent ones like Louis Armstrong, but their swinging songs are radiant with achieved happiness and their sad songs ballads touched by the knowing, essentially stoical sound of the blues.
