Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) poet
"The Streets of Laredo", line 1, from Holes in the Sky (1948)
MacNeice’s poem, a grotesque vision of the London Blitz, is not to be confused with the cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo".
April 20, 1840
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chapter4.pdf#page=13
Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) poet
"The Streets of Laredo", line 1, from Holes in the Sky (1948)
MacNeice’s poem, a grotesque vision of the London Blitz, is not to be confused with the cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo".
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer
Lyrics added to "We Shall Overcome" by Seeger in the late 1940s, whose musical arrangement and renditions helped popularize the song among civil-rights activists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also changed the primary lines from from "We Will Overcome" to "We Shall Overcome".
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Podcast Series 1 Episode 2
On Sex
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
“I woke up early this morning”
Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter
Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
Kuvempu (1904–1994) Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker
"The Flower", a translation of his first Kannada poem "Poovu".
/ Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)
“What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?”
Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. II (p. 49)