(n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
(v. i.) To make or sing ballads.
(v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Celtic fans still regularly belt out The Ballad of Willie Maley," writes Mark Sheffield.
(2) His father, who was fond of humming the popular ballad Keep Right on to the End of the Road, lost his job in the great depression of the early 1930s.
(3) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(4) On at least one occasion he was persuaded to pick up a gusle , the single-stringed fiddle of the region, and perform an epic Serb ballad under a framed portrait of himself at the height of his power.
(5) "I feel like I could bring out a ballad next or I could bring out a techno song.
(6) Leaving a Murdoch-dominated media landscape with shows where, each week, shrieking irradiated cannibals sing power ballads as they compete for the right to die?
(7) After The Ballad was published in 1986, I spent two years in my room.
(8) Instead, Miliband's choices were often full of personal meaning, such as Paul Robeson's rendition of leftwing anthem The Ballad of Joe Hill, which he selected in memory of his father Ralph.
(9) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(10) Polydor signed her in 2009 and she might easily have released a debut album of unadorned guitar ballads, the sort of stuff she'd been touring around London pubs and bars.
(11) Rock's lingua franca remains the post-Oasis, post-Radiohead big stadium ballad, replete with keep-your-chin-up lyrics, usually suggesting you "hold on".
(12) Yet one one of the most moving moments of the night came when the choir from Parrs Wood High School in south Manchester duetted with Grande on her ballad, My Everything .
(13) His dad had liked Paul Robeson, hence Ballad of Joe Hill; the South African national anthem reminded him of an inspiring South Africanhe had known who was murdered by the secret police.
(14) The norteño band Los Tigres del Norte cancelled a planned appearance at an awards ceremony at a government-owned auditorium in October after organisers allegedly asked them not to perform a drug ballad.
(15) Jon Morter, 35, a part-time rock DJ and logistics expert from South Woodham Ferrers, near Chelmsford, decided it would be a bit of a giggle to start a campaign to encourage people to buy a record with pretty much the opposite vibe to the X Factor winner's ballad.
(16) It also inspired a Johnny Cash hit, The Ballad of Ira Hayes, with lyrics touching on a bitter legacy that is the source of many of the reservation’s problems to this day: The water grew Ira’s people’s crops ’Til the white man stole the water rights And the sparklin’ water stopped.
(17) Despite the jail's grim exterior, the regime is fairly liberal and inmates earn extra cash by selling food, handicrafts - and drug ballads.
(18) The trailer is book-ended by Tyson quoting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
(19) Official Charts Company data shows Noel Gallagher’s band High Flying Birds had both the best-selling vinyl single and album in the first three months of the year, with Ballad Of The Mighty I and Chasing Yesterday , respectively.
(20) After university in Cambridge, he toured revolutionary Europe and then set up home briefly in the West Country with his sister Dorothy, where he met Coleridge, his collaborator on their early popular volume, the Lyrical Ballads .
Calypso
Definition:
(n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calypso star Glenroy "Sullé" Caesar composed a song called Reparations, which has since become an anthem of the movement.
(2) Ukip’s claim that they are not a racist party gets more and more incredible with every scandal.” Read defended his song after some objected to his appropriation of calypso music to promote an anti-immigration argument.
(3) Remarkably, when Kitchener disembarked, Pathe News caught the "king of calypso" on camera.
(4) With its wit and side order of double entendre – "Oh mister, don't touch me tomatoes" – calypso fitted easily into the national psyche.
(5) It was The Banana Boat Song, a Jamaican work chant, that broke calypso to an international audience.
(6) Ukip has attracted criticism over its new calypso theme tune sung in a fake Caribbean accent, with lyrics about “open borders” and “illegal immigrants in every town”.
(7) I flew down there with my grandfather to spend two weeks on his boat, the Calypso, when I was nine.
(8) As the 50s teetered into the 60s, calypso was still popular.
(9) In his youth, when he was a Boston-based calypso singer, they used to call him The Charmer.
(10) But it was never meant to be remotely racist … It’s an old-fashioned political satire … you can’t sing a calypso with a Surrey accent.” The song’s second line addresses the issue of immigration, saying: “Leaders committed a cardinal sin, open the borders let them all come in; illegal immigrants in every town, stand up and be counted Blair and Brown.
(11) However, Calypso Sun Lotion SPF30, at £1.20 per 100ml is around a 10th of the cost of Piz Buin lotion – passed both tests.
(12) The first breach took place on 2 August last year, when the votes cast by five Irish viewers in Cricket AM's Car Park Calypso competition were not registered because of a technical fault.
(13) They are funny because David Silvester said gay marriage had caused flooding in the Thames basin ; because Godfrey Bloom assaulted a reporter with a conference brochure and condemned aid to “bongo bongo land” ; because their celebrity Mike Read sang a pro-Ukips calypso in a West Indian accent ; because William Henwood said Lenny Henry should emigrate to a “black country” ; because Winston McKenzie has the fame-crazed air of a man who would join a Skrewdriver tribute band if he thought it would get him on Channel 5 news; and because the Ukips’ deputy leader, Paul Nuttalls, is so pleased to be the centre of attention he sports the perpetual expression of a baby that has just used a potty for the first time, holding up his arse muck delightedly for his parents to coo over.
(14) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(15) As a new book devoted to the label's cover art illustrates, Studio One also branched out into gospel, calypso and mento recordings, and even sessions by Indian devotional musician Sri Chinmoy.