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There have been no team excursions here in Augsburg, a petite city on the Romantische Strasse, the 220-mile section of "Romantic Road" that links up some of Bavaria's tourist traps, but in Wolfsburg there was a visit to the Volkswagen factory, and in Dresden an impromptu public folk-song singalong with the New Zealand squad on the mayor's balcony.
Hope Powell's England need cool heads in the heat of World Cup battle 2011
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The restaurant wasn't Alice's of folk-song fame but a midtown joint called Legends, managed by ex-cop Noel Firth.
Len Levitt: The Feds' Leak Investigation: Probe or Payback? Len Levitt 2011
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This is the era of England's folk-song revival, and Stace skillfully evokes the excitement of the collectors' hunt for undiscovered songs and singers as well as the emotional power of the music itself.
Anna Mundow reviews 'Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer,' by Wesley Stace 2011
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Yes, and in the second dog-watch last evening our three topaz-eyed dreamers sang some folk-song strangely sweet and sad.
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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The restaurant wasn't Alice's of folk-song fame but a midtown joint called Legends, managed by ex-cop Noel Firth.
Len Levitt: The Feds' Leak Investigation: Probe or Payback? Len Levitt 2011
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Her descriptions awakened a memory of a rather odd folk-song that went "When I was a young man, I studied guitar in Seville."
A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons 2010
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This is the era of England's folk-song revival, and Stace skillfully evokes the excitement of the collectors' hunt for undiscovered songs and singers as well as the emotional power of the music itself.
Anna Mundow reviews 'Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer,' by Wesley Stace 2011
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There have been no team excursions here in Augsburg, a petite city on the Romantische Strasse, the 220-mile section of "Romantic Road" that links up some of Bavaria's tourist traps, but in Wolfsburg there was a visit to the Volkswagen factory, and in Dresden an impromptu public folk-song singalong with the New Zealand squad on the mayor's balcony.
Hope Powell's England need cool heads in the heat of World Cup battle 2011
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That Schwabian folk-song sounded strangely pathetic under the cold northern stars, and did not do the men good who lounged about the fire after the toil of the day.
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For example, when they make use of a common folk-song device like a sustained drone, the sisters take it to a more agitated place, using slight tonal changes that bear the influence of the minimalist composer Steve Reich.
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