A Nation Once Again was voted the world's most popular song according to a BBC World Service global poll of listeners, ahead of "Vande Mataram", the national song of India. Davis copied the melody for the chorus from the second movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto. The lyrics use a simple ABABCDCD rhyme scheme, with verses of eight lines, and alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. Davis describes how he learned of ancient fighters for freedom as a boy — the three hundred Spartans who fought at the Battle of Thermopylae. The "three men" may refer to Horatius Cocles and his two companions
Fare Thee Well (song) a while. I’m going away, but I’ll be back If I go ten thousand miles. </poem> References 1-6 are transcribed from the Traditional Ballad Index website listed in "External Links" below Fare Thee Well (song) "Fare Thee Well" (sometimes known as "The Turtle Dove") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, in which a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey. The lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers. The first published version of the song appeared in "Roxburghe Ballads" dated 1710; the lyrics were there given the title "The True Lover's Farewell". "Fare Thee Well" shares several lyrics