Tie a Yellow Ribbon: While We Are Apart
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At that time,Bob Hope said to Tony "I'm coming home,I've done my time",is every mother's wish,every soldier's prayer,every mother's prayer,and every soldier's wish. You'll going to be singing this song for the rest of your life. The song also welcomed the hostages home from Iran in Yellow ribbons flew from everything from the space shuttle to sky scrapers.
People sang the song in support of troops during Desert Storm. Today driving down the freeway you'll see yellow ribbons on cars supporting troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. From its beginning in ,yellow ribbons have become an icon for those who wait at home for their loved ones who are far away.
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This book and accompanying CD of the song ,is an excellent tribute to the song and the hope of safe return for all loved ones far away;and has become a national treasure. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. View or edit your browsing history. Get to Know Us. He asks the bus driver to check, fearful of not seeing anything.
To his amazement, the entire bus cheers the response — there are yellow ribbons around the tree, a sign he is very much welcome. This is NOT the story of a convict who had told his love to tie a ribbon book to a tree outside of town.
I know because I wrote the song one morning in 15 minutes with the late lyrical genius Irwin Levine. The genesis of this idea came from the age old folk tale about a Union prisoner of war--who sent a letter to his girl that he was coming home from a confederate POW camp in Georgia Anything about a criminal is pure fantasy The origin of the idea of a yellow ribbon as remembrance may have been the 19th-century practice that some women allegedly had of wearing a yellow ribbon in their hair to signify their devotion to a husband or sweetheart serving in the U.
The symbol of a yellow ribbon became widely known in civilian life in the s as a reminder that an absent loved one, either in the military or in jail, would be welcomed home on their return. Hamill claimed to have heard this story in oral tradition. Russell Brown, he read Hamill's story in the Reader's Digest , and suggested to his songwriting partner Irwin Levine that they write a song based on it. At the time, the writers said they heard the story while serving in the military.
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Pete Hamill was not convinced and filed suit for infringement. Hamill dropped his suit after folklorists working for Levine and Brown turned up archival versions of the story that had been collected before "Going Home" had been written. Levine and Brown first offered the song to Ringo Starr , but Al Steckler of Apple Records told them that they should be ashamed of the song and described it as "ridiculous".
It also reached No. Billboard ranked it as the No.
In the Philippines , the song was best known for its use in the return of exiled politician Benigno Aquino, Jr. However, Aquino was assassinated upon arrival, sparking the rise of People Power three years later that led to the demise of Ferdinand Marcos ' presidency and subsequent inauguration of Aquino's widow Corazon Aquino as president. During the Hong Kong Protests the song was routinely performed by pro-democracy protestors and sympathetic street musicians as a reference to the yellow ribbons that had become a popular symbol of the movement on site tied to street railings and on social media.
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Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong has followed the art of the protest movement closely. He said the yellow ribbon emerged from student boycotts. He said that social media had played a part in personalising the symbol.
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Everyone has started to play with it. When BBC News told Penne Laingen about the protest movement, she was touched to find a simple tribute to her husband had spread so far and lasted so long. Michel Barnier says he wants to "de-dramatise" the issue and respect the UK's territorial integrity.
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UK selected England N. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Hanwell residents covered the town with yellow ribbons as a tribute to Alice Gross The streets of Hanwell, west London, remain awash with ribbons for year-old Alice Gross, who was found dead on 30 September.
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