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  • She later announced she would be staying on to perform at a club in North Beach a few nights a week, and I went several times to see her again, mostly to hear "Cam Ye O'er Frae France?" and be moved on what felt like a cellular level.

    Great Scots 2009

  • At that show, Betsy did a solo where she sang "Cam Ye O'er Frae France?", explaining its origins as a scathing Jacobite rebellion riddle song, and alternating singing with a dazzling rendition on her fiddle.

    Great Scots 2009

  • Christina Aguilera gives "The Star-Spangled Banner" an accidental remix during the Super Bowl pre-game, subbing "O'er the ramparts we watched/were so gallantly streaming" with the half-rehashed line "What so proudly we watched/at the twilight's last reaming."

    Top Moments: Modern Family's Affair to Forget and Glee's Independent Woman 2011

  • At that show, Betsy did a solo where she sang "Cam Ye O'er Frae France?", explaining its origins as a scathing Jacobite rebellion riddle song, and alternating singing with a dazzling rendition on her fiddle.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • O'er his shoulders with large cipher eyeballs I look,

    Enigma 2010

  • O'er gardens of the bourgeoisie there rules a king of ulcered thigh,

    Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Stevens suggested the relatively obscure power ballad, "Love, Reign O'er Me," from Quadrophenia.

    Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010

  • She took that approach to her remarkable performance in 2008 at the Kennedy Center Honors of the Who's "Love, Reign O'er Me" that put her on the map for the music industry.

    Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010

  • O'er the bulwarks hang the seamen panting open-mouth'd for air;

    The Voyage of Magellan 2010

  • She later announced she would be staying on to perform at a club in North Beach a few nights a week, and I went several times to see her again, mostly to hear "Cam Ye O'er Frae France?" and be moved on what felt like a cellular level.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

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