Popular
song (Oldie but Goodie)
Laurie (Strange
Things Happen in this World)
by Dickey Lee lyrics by Milton "Mitt"
Addington
Listen
to "Laurie", a popular song that reached #14 in the U.S. in 1965.
Then do a transcription of the lyrics. Some of the vocabulary is given to
help you. Have you ever heard a story similar to this one before, Chinese
or otherwise? What
two meanings does this phrase have: 'an angel of a girl''?
How about 'so lovely and warm'? Why did Laurie 'suddenly' think to ask for
the narrator's sweater? In what two ways was she 'cold'? What do you think
inspired the writer to come up with a story like this?
Click here to play "Laurie".
Vocabulary:
| dance lovely an angel of a to walk s.o. home to pull s.o. close sweater |
instead to knock at a door cruel to come to s.o. to leave this world a strange force |
to
draw s.o. to graveyard shadows to wave grave |