Best Triple Meter

'The Times They Are A-Changin'' is the title track of Bob Dylan's third studio album, released in January 1964 by Columbia Records. Written in 3/4 waltz time with sparse acoustic guitar and harmonica, the song presents a series of direct warnings to established authority figures that a new social or...

"She's Leaving Home" is a track by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Credited to the Lennon-McCartney partnership, the song is a narrative ballad based on a real newspaper story about a teenage runaway. Musically, it is distinguished by...

"Sunrise, Sunset" is a song from the 1964 Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. In the original production it is performed during the wedding scene of Tevye's daughter Tzeitel and Motel Kamzoil, with Tevye and his wife Golde joined by guests Pe...

"Manic Depression" is a song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on their 1967 debut album "Are You Experienced." Written and sung by Jimi Hendrix, the track is notable for its use of 3/4 waltz time, an unusual meter in rock music, built around a driving blues-rock guitar riff and a matched dru...

"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" is a song composed by Frederick Loewe with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, written for their 1956 Broadway musical *My Fair Lady*. The piece is performed by the character Eliza Doolittle in Act I, where she expresses her simple desires for comfort, cleanliness, and affection whil...

"When I'm Sixty-Four" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and released on their 1967 concept album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The track is characterized by its upbeat vaudeville style, traditional pop melody, and waltz-time rhythm. McCartney wrote...

Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song and melody, first registered in 1580 at the London Stationer's Company. It is often arranged in waltz time and features a distinctive triple-meter structure. The melody has been widely popularized and is frequently, though without firm evidence, attrib...

Scarborough Fair is a traditional English folk ballad originating from the region of Yorkshire. The song tells the story of a young man instructing a former lover to perform a series of impossible tasks in order to win him back. It traces its roots back to obscure medieval Scottish and English varia...

Beautiful Dreamer is a parlor song written by the prominent 19th-century American composer Stephen Foster. The song was published posthumously in 1864, shortly after Foster's death. Written in a flowing triple meter reminiscent of a waltz, the composition features a gentle, lyrical melody paired wit...

Mélodie is the third piece of Tchaikovsky's Op. 42 suite Souvenir d'un lieu cher, composed in 1878 and originally written for violin and piano. The suite was dedicated to Nadezhda von Meck, a patron of Tchaikovsky, and the music is associated with a place in western Russia near Brailov where he stay...

Waltzing Matilda is an Australian bush ballad with lyrics written by Banjo Paterson in 1895 and set to a melody adapted by Marie Cowan. The song's lyrics describe a swagman who steals a sheep and drowns himself in a billabong rather than be arrested, using terms drawn from Australian slang of the pe...

Try to Remember is a classic song from the 1960 musical The Fantasticks, composed by Harvey Schmidt with lyrics by Tom Jones. Written in waltz time, it serves as the show's opening number and sets a nostalgic tone by inviting the audience to recall the gentle days of September. The Fantasticks famou...

"Annie's Song" is a folk-pop ballad written and recorded by American singer-songwriter John Denver for his 1974 studio album, Back Home Again. Composed in a 3/4 waltz meter, the track was written as an ode to his then-wife, Annie Martell, and famously completed in approximately ten minutes while he...

Leaving on a Jet Plane is a folk song written by John Denver in 1966, originally under the title Babe, I Hate to Go. Peter, Paul and Mary released the best-known recording, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. Its lyrics present a departing traveler addressing a loved one, comb...

Daisy Bell, also known as A Bicycle Built for Two, is a popular song written by British songwriter Harry Dacre and published in 1892. Its chorus, addressed to a woman named Daisy, became widely familiar through music-hall and parlor performance and is built around a lilting waltz rhythm. In 1961, re...

Happy Birthday to You is a widely recognized song that originated from 'Good Morning to All,' a melody composed by American sisters Mildred and Patty Hill in 1893. The Hills were kindergarten teachers who initially created the tune as a simple greeting song for their young students. Over the followi...

Shine On Harvest Moon is a popular song written in 1908 by the vaudeville performing duo Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. Published during the Tin Pan Alley era, the song is structured as a waltz and features lyrics pleading for the harvest moon to shine brightly. It became one of the most successful a...

God Save the King is the national or royal anthem of the United Kingdom, with origins tracing back to the 18th century. The melody and authorship remain uncertain, but the song was first publicly performed in London in 1745 in support of King George II. Written in a triple meter, it features a strai...

"(Back Home Again in) Indiana" is a popular American song written in 1917 by James F. Hanley, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald. The composition is a prominent example of early Tin Pan Alley publishing, characterized by its waltz-time melody and lyrics referencing the American Midwest. It became an u...

"Toyland" is a song from Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, with lyrics by Glen MacDonough. Sung as a reflection on an imagined childhood realm, it uses a gentle waltz-like triple meter and expresses the idea that Toyland cannot truly be regained after growing up. The song outlived its...

"I Love You Truly" is a parlor ballad composed by American songwriter Carrie Jacobs-Bond in 1901. Written in a traditional waltz tempo, the piece became one of the most commercially successful and enduring sentimental songs of the early twentieth century in the United States. Its themes of steadfast...

"Alice Blue Gown" is a popular song from the 1919 Broadway musical "Irene," featuring music by Harry Tierney and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. The track became a major hit in the early 20th century and is named after the pale blue dress worn by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of U.S. President Theo...

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee," also known as "America," is a patriotic hymn with lyrics written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831. The melody is identical to that of the British national anthem, "God Save the King," reflecting a common practice of sharing musical themes in the 18th and 19th centuries. Th...

"Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" is an English song that sets a poem by Ben Jonson, originally titled "Song: To Celia," to a traditional melody. The song gained popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries as a parlor ballad and a standard for glee clubs. Its simple, lyrical melody has also made it a...

The waltz from Brigadoon is an instrumental musical piece from the 1947 stage production of the same name. The show was developed by the writing team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. It is set in a mythical Scottish village that emerges from the mist for one day every hundred years. The origi...

'Down by the Old Mill Stream' is a popular American parlor and barbershop song written and composed by Tell Taylor in 1908 and published in 1910. Written in triple meter, the piece became one of the most commercially successful songs of its decade and a lasting standard in the barbershop quartet rep...