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| Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This might be relevant to the discussion about Scottish wars earlier on in this thread. The song is written in the style of a scottish folk song, but with blues guitar and a middle 8 to make it a pop song. It opens with 'these mist covered mountains', a clear reference to the scots song of the same name, and the hook contains a scotch snap (on the word brothers). The scotch snap is indicative of scottish dance music, specifically the strathspey, and afaik is not found anywhere else in western music.
Personally, I agree with previous posters that the song is about all wars, but Knopfler clearly had scottish music in mind when he wrote it. |
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| Janis Joplin – Amazing Grace Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Yeah, there's more to the song, but the version by Janis Joplin that I know of only includes this first verse. It then segues into Hi Heel Sneakers. |
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| Tom Waits – Georgia Lee Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The opening line is referencing a hymn (Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground), famously recorded by Blind Willie Johnson. A copy of that performance is on the record that was attached to the Voyager spacecraft that's currently on its way out of the solar system. |
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| Tom Waits – Burma-Shave Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Saw an interview with Waits where he says that when he was a kid he saw the road signs and thought that Burma Shave was a town, hence the odd use of the name here. |
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| Warren Zevon – Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Oddly, the historical aspect of this song contains an error. The Biafran war and Congo crisis were unrelated, so Roland couldn't have headed for Biafra to fight the Congo war. For an example of a somewhat more heroic mercenary's involvement in the Biafran conflict, see Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen. |
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