When You Give It Away by Bruce Cockburn Song Details

Bruce Cockburn's ' "When You Give It Away" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1999. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 1 out of 11 in Breakfast In New Orleans Dinner In Timbuktu by Bruce Cockburn. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from Canada. Based on our statistics, When You Give It Away's popularity is below average in popularity right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of When You Give It Away by Bruce Cockburn is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 138 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

D Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-7.582 dB
Acousticness
42%
Danceability
60%
Energy
59%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
19%
Loudness
87%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
64%

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ISRC
CAT249900024
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records