answers: Thomas D'Urfey
context: solo with double-tracked climax, the impeccable interplay of guitar, bass, and drum, the inimitable Plant shrieking, the gorgeous coda, even the super-oblique title". Critic Bill Wyman, writing for Vulture.com in 2015, ranked it as Led Zeppelin's 6th best song. 1973 7" single 1973 7" radio edit 1990 CD single Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin song) "Over the Hills and Far Away" is the third track from English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1973 album "Houses of the Holy". It was released as a single, with "Dancing Days" as the B-side, in the US. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant </s> versions both refer to lovers, while Farquhar's version refers to fleeing overseas to join the army. The tune was provided with another set of lyrics for the British "Sharpe" television series of the 1990s, based on Farquhar's version. This version was also recorded by John Tams who played Dan Hagman in the series. The nursery rhyme "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" mentions a piper who knows only one tune, this one. Early versions of this, known as "The distracted Jockey's Lamentations", may have been written (but not included) in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners (1698): Another nursery rhyme "Five Little </s> the opening lyrics of the third verse ("Many times I've lied, many times I've listened"). He also commonly followed the words "pocket-full of gold" with "Acapulco Gold" (a type of marijuana), as can be heard on the live album "How the West Was Won." From 1973 on, he sang the second and the third verses in a lower register because of the growing damaging of his vocals. Also, at concerts guitarist Jimmy Page performed an extended guitar solo, which essentially consisted of the rhythm and lead guitar parts of the album version split into two separate pieces. This extended solo
question: who wrote over the hills and far away