Popular
song (Oldie but Goodie)
Laurie (Strange
Things Happen in this World)
by Dickey Lee lyrics by Milton "Mitt"
Addington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0N4nyYS5aA
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'?
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 |