Sunday, 21 April 2013

Big Yellow Taxi - Earth Day


Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you have got until its gone.


"Big Yellow Taxi"
(feat. Vanessa Carlton)

[Adam Duritz]
They paved paradise and            1          (to put) up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go 
That you          2          (to know/neg) what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Vanessa Carlton]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop

[Adam]
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they        3          (to charge) the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot

[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop

[Adam]
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?

[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop

[Adam]
Listen, late last night, I       4          (to hear) the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop

[Adam, Vanessa]
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away

I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Cos you giving it all away
Hey, hey, givin it all,
givin it all....away 

[Vanessa]
Why do you want me?
why do you want me?

[Adam]
because          5       (to give) it all away,
Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot


Wednesday, 17 April 2013

My Way- Frank Sinatra Past Simple, Present Perfect, and Present Simple


My  Way - Frank Sinatra


 And now, the end is here
nAnd so I face the final curtai 
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I                  1           (to be: present) certain
                            
 I             2                (to live: past) a life that's full

I               3           (to travel: past) each and every highway

And more, much more than this, I              4              (to do: past) it my way


Regrets,                5              (to have: past) a few

But then again, too few to mention
I              6              (to do: past) what I had to do and                  6           (to see: past) it 
through without exemption
I                 7                (to plan: past) each charted course, each careful step along the byway

And more, much more than this, I did it my way


Yes, there               8                 (to be: past) times, I'm sure you knew

When I                  9                  (to bite:past) off more than I could chew

But through it all, when there was doubt

I                    10                   (to eat: past) it up and spit it out

I faced it all and I                   11               (to stand: past) tall and did it my way

                    12                (to love: past), I've laughed and cried

I've had my fill, my share of losing

And now, as tears subside,                  13                (to find: present) it all so amusing

To think I did all that

And may I say, not in a shy way,

"Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way"


For what is a man, what has he got?

If not himself, then he                  14                 (to have: present) naught

To say the things he truly                  15               (to feel: present) and not the words of one 
who kneels

The record                   16          (to show: present) I took the blows and did it my way!