Vocabulary:
| Little
Miss Muffet tuffet curds gourmet Cher Doris Day groceries Betty Crocker to be...at heart (grocery) cart to sail label various boxboy to sneak up on one moment to dread peas to lay down the law to thaw to freeze |
to stock
up on Tuna Helper for a rainy day to state not to mind to do laundry to hang out clothes sweet sunshine to run around woolens to know no static stocking to cling ring (around the) collar less than perfect paradise to despise to bring in (bed) sheets to fold up |
shorts to hang up shirts to match up pleats expectation to make you blue to lie in long ago dime-store princess local Dairy Queen handsome princes to trade s.t. in on tiara Cary Grant to swap steps with Fred (Astaire) to dust off to wind up |
Exercises and Questions:
1. Transcribe the lyrics of this song.
2. Use the Internet to identify the following people: a. Little Miss Muffet;
b. Cher; c. Doris Day; d. Betty Crocker; e. a boxboy; f. Cary Grant; g. Fred
Astaire.
3. What are these? a. curds; b. gourmet; c. Dairy Queen; d. Tuna Helper; e.
laundry; f. woolens; g. pleats; h. dime store; i. champagne; j. tiara.
4. What explanation in the second part of the song does the singer give for
not liking to put things away? How do the last things she says in the song affect
the interpretation of the rest of the song?