FIVETOONE

Five to One

"Five to One" is a song by The Doors, from their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun. Part of the song, was seemingly lifted from the 19th-century hymnal and bedtime rhyme "Now the Day is Over" by Morrison. Similarly, Morrison quoted the "Christian child's prayer" in a live version of "Soul Kitchen" sung in 1969 and also altered the children's rhyme "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over The candlestick" to suit part of his poem An American Prayer . Morrison was possibly referring to a Dylan Thomas story entitled The Fight in Thomas' Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, ...

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