“Will you let me go?” “Bismillah no, we will not let you go!” –Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Bismillah is an exclamation that means, “in the name of Allah.” The etymology is Arabic, coming from the first phrase in the Koran, “bi-smi-llah.”
Tag: music
Jul 16
Truman, Missouri, and music
President Truman was a musician and a Missourian. However, he didn’t care much for our state song, The Missouri Waltz: “It’s a ragtime song and if you let me say what I think–I don’t give a [expletive deleted] about it, but I can’t say it out loud because it’s the song of Missouri. It’s as …
Jun 27
These five words
The two Bon Jovi songs “I’ll Be There For You” and “Thank You For Loving Me” both have five-word titles, and both lyrics contain the phrase “these five words.”
