Here’s a series of songs with seven beats to the bar:
The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love” (the verses only, the chorus seems to be in 4/4):
Rather more frantically, “Mother”, an early song by The Police:
On a different plane, the chorus “Old Joe Has Gone Fishing” from Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes:
Probably even more famous than “All You Need Is Love” (and qualifies better for this list since it is mostly in 7/4) – “Money” by Pink Floyd:
If you watch none of the others, do watch Dave Brubeck’s joyous “Unsquare Dance”:
(Bit further on now.) It’s convincing in some ways of a society that is uneducated, tradition-bound and insular, and it isn’t bugging me anymore – so that’s good.
Still, they formed new terms for time to better suit their circumstances, I’d’ve expected new terms or some qualifiers for dark, cold, and maybe also warm.