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How ‘Agatha All Along’ Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez Built A History For “The Ballad Of The Witches’ Road”
How ‘Agatha All Along’ songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez built a history for “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road”.
“We wrote the ’70s version first, but it had to feel like a hit and have a love song element to it,” says Anderson-Lopez. “So, you’ve got, ‘Our love was forged in fire, water earth and air’… They’re all hidden in words like that, and we needed to bury some directions in there about what can happen, and the rules of the road.” Since the concept of the song had to derive from a children’s walking song, the pair chose to use nursery rhymes as inspiration for the chorus, with “down, down, down the road” sounding similar to “row, row, row your boat.” “The core of it was already this song that a mom might make up with her kid as they walked along a road,” says Lopez, “and you might be surprised to find this out, but a lot of pop hits contain elements of nursery rhymes because they’re really sticky.
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