Popular song: Putting Things Away by Amanda McBroom
From the musical Heartbeats

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?

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