Happy Christmas (War is Over)
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. The song...
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Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song and tune, over a ground either of the form called a romanesca or of its slight variant, the passamezzo antico. A broadside ballad by this name was...
House of the Rising Sun
The House of the Rising Sun” is a traditional folk song, sometimes called “Rising Sun Blues”. It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964...
Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten
Aan de Amsterdamse grachten (“At the Amsterdam canals”) is a Dutch song by Pieter Goemans. It was written in 1949 but not recorded until 1956, and many times more since then. It is one...
