About: Sourwood Mountain

An Entity of Type: song, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

"Sourwood Mountain" is a traditional American folk song. Like many folk songs, there are numerous lyrical versions extant; however, there are certain commonalities. The song's theme is a lament over the narrator's true love, from whom he is separated. The title comes from the opening line, which is invariably "Chicken's (a) crowing on Sourwood Mountain". Each verse of the song consists of a rhyming couplet interspersed with a nonsense refrain, for example: Chicken's a-crowing on Sourwood MountainHey-ho diddle-um daySo many pretty girls I can't count themHey-ho diddle-um day

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • "Sourwood Mountain" is a traditional American folk song. Like many folk songs, there are numerous lyrical versions extant; however, there are certain commonalities. The song's theme is a lament over the narrator's true love, from whom he is separated. The title comes from the opening line, which is invariably "Chicken's (a) crowing on Sourwood Mountain". Each verse of the song consists of a rhyming couplet interspersed with a nonsense refrain, for example: Chicken's a-crowing on Sourwood MountainHey-ho diddle-um daySo many pretty girls I can't count themHey-ho diddle-um day "Sourwood Mountain" is most closely associated with the music of Appalachia; however, there are versions native to New England as well. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 25030944 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1676 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1048946388 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • "Sourwood Mountain" is a traditional American folk song. Like many folk songs, there are numerous lyrical versions extant; however, there are certain commonalities. The song's theme is a lament over the narrator's true love, from whom he is separated. The title comes from the opening line, which is invariably "Chicken's (a) crowing on Sourwood Mountain". Each verse of the song consists of a rhyming couplet interspersed with a nonsense refrain, for example: Chicken's a-crowing on Sourwood MountainHey-ho diddle-um daySo many pretty girls I can't count themHey-ho diddle-um day (en)
rdfs:label
  • Sourwood Mountain (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:title of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License