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Professionally performed with new words to old folk tunes, John Doe's singing scrupulously echoed the mendacious Moscow tune: Franklin Roosevelt is lead ing an unwilling people into a J. P. Morgan war. The ballad of Billy Boy observes that
Chorus of The Ballad of October 16 (draft registration date...
...Song. Thirteen recorded versions of this pandemic double-talk ballad are available. The refrain-Hut sut rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla, soo-it-is not Swedish, as Composers Leo V. Killion, Jack Owens...
...seemed a queer ballad for a nun to tackle. But even at its climax-when the landlord's daughter warns her lover of the King's men, by shattering her breast with a musket shot-the Noyes was expertly joined by Sister Martina's warm, robust music...
WRITTEN in blank verse and viewing the current war purely as a struggle between a moustached Mephistopheles and British Righteousness, Alfred Noyes' new poem lacks both rhyme and reason. The stirring ballad style and pointed irony of his more famous poetry has yielded to Carlyic-like turgidity and verbosity. The former Princeton professor approaches a quotable quote only once in half a hundred pages when he condemns amongst the wave of irrationalists who prepared the intellectuals for Hitler...