- published: 23 Nov 2006
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Cheering is the uttering or making of sounds encouraging, stimulating or exciting to action, indicating approval or acclaiming or welcoming persons, announcements of events and the like.
The word cheer meant originally face, countenance, expression, and came through Old French into Middle English in the 13th century from Low Latin cara, head; this is generally referred to the Greek καρα;. Cara is used by the 6th-century poet Flavius Cresconius Corippus, Postquam venere verendam Caesilris ante caram (In Laud em Justini Minoris). Cheer was at first qualified with epithets, both of joy and gladness and of sorrow; compare She thanked Dyomede for ale ... his gode chere (Chaucer, Troylus) with If they sing ... tis with so dull a cheere (Shakespeare, Sonnets, xcvii.). An early transference in meaning was to hospitality or entertainment, and hence to food and drink, good cheer. The sense of a shout of encouragement or applause is a late use. Defoe (Captain Singleton) speaks of it as a sailor's word, and the meaning does not appear in Johnson.
I put a tack on everything,
It lets me know just where i've been,
Call out these chains and get me home,
I'm coming back but will you show,
Hooray Hooray its not over,
we have got all day to recover,
and i'm on a roll so don't you be late,
Too late too late run for cover,
there is not enough left to offer,
theres more to this than acting my age.
I put a price on what you say,
it lets me know that i'm ok,
but i'm a garbage man tonight,
and i just don't believe my eyes,
Hooray Hooray its not over,
we have got all day to recover,
and i'm on a roll so don't you be late,
Too late too late run for cover,
and there is not enough left to offer,
and theres more to this than acting my age.
Oh you'll never believe what i have seen whilst i was
lost,
i found this place next to the ocean,
a perfect fit for us,
you're in so deep you cannot move,
so let me in,
Hooray Hooray its not over,
we have got all day to recover,
and i'm on a roll so don't you be late.
Hooray Hooray its not over,
we have got all day to recover,
and i'm on a roll so don't you be late,
Too late too late run for cover,
there is not enough left to offer,
and theres more to this than acting my age.
Too late, too late,
Too late, too late,
Too late, too late,
Too late, too late,
Too late, too late,
Too late, too late,
Too late, too late,