Monday, 6 October 2014

Thank you to all our visitors and readers from all over the world.

It's wonderful to see all those red dots from all over the world.
Thank you to everyone who has visited the blog and I hope I can continue to help life long learning and surprise you and myself with some occasional unusual posts. I dedicate the Dan Fogelberg ballad to everyone out there reading this blog and my TOK Blog. Have a great day!

Dan Fogelberg - Longer

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ballad /ˈbælɪd/ is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the islands of Britain and Ireland from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the AmericasAustralia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century the term took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and is now often used for any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad. (Wikipedia) Many are love songs but some are also very dark - "Hurt" as sung by Johnny Cash for example.