TESOL Songsheets (Just the Links)

[This is a repost of the previous post, but with only the links and none of the worksheets embedded.]

(TESOL Ideas)

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22 by Taylor Swift
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon
A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
Ain't Got No, I Got Life by Nina Simone
Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers
All the Words in the English Language by The Animaniacs
As Long As You Love Me by Justin Bieber
Baby by Justin Bieber
Back to December by Taylor Swift
Blank Space by Taylor Swift
Bus Stop by The Hollies
Don't Let Me Down by The Beatles
Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone
Frankie and Johnny by Sam Cooke
Get Ready by The Temptations
Hey Jude by The Beatles
Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles
I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift
I Should be Proud by Martha and the Vandellas
If It Hadn't Been For Love by Adele
Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) by Paul Revere and the Raiders
(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone by The Monkees
It's All Over Now by The Rolling Stones
Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice
Jesus Gave Me Water by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers
Let Her Go by Passenger
Let it Be by The Beatles
Let It Go by Demi Lovato
Listen by Beyonce
Love Potion Number 9 by The Searchers
Money (That's What I Want) by The Beatles
Nations of the World by The Animaniacs
O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps
People Got to be Free by The Rascals
Poison Ivy by The Coasters
Respect by Aretha Franklin
Revolution by The Beatles
Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers
She's Not There by The Zombies
Shop Around by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield
Stop the War Now by Edwin Starr
Sweet Cherry Wine by Tommy James and the Shondells
Tacky by Weird Al Yankovic
The Games People Play by Joe South
The Man by Aloe Blacc
The Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett
The Presidents Song by The Animaniacs
Think by Aretha Franklin
The Two G Sounds--Sesame Street ,
U.N. Me by The Animaniacs
Valerie by Amy Winehouse
War by Edwin Starr
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin
When I'm Gone (Cups) by Anna Kendrick
Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic
You and I by One Direction
You've Really Got a Hold on Me by The Beatles



I've been on a real kick lately to use songs more and more in my classes.  Although I use to think bringing in too many songs was the sign of a lazy TESOL teacher, I've been learning a lot of things lately that have changed my mind.  A lot of the literature I've read on young learners in particular has caused me to think I should focus less on the grammar, and more on simply trying to maximize their exposure to the language whatever why I can. (Much of the literature I've read on Young Learners says that they can not analyze grammar points as well as older learners, but can absorb a fair amount of the language simply by exposure.)  So, in addition to a steady diet of Graded Readers, I've been making it a point to do one song every lesson.
In this day and age, when the lyrics to everything are already on the Internet, it's easy enough for anyone to design these sheets by themselves.  So I'm not sure anyone really needs me to post my own.
However, having gone through the trouble of making them once, I want to keep track of the songsheets I've designed just for my own benefit in case I end up repeating any of these songs.  And this blog is a good place to do it.  And if anyone else out there happens to find them useful, so much the better.
The songsheets are all fill in the blank.  The words needed for the blanks are all in a box at the top.  (Although if you wanted to increase the challenge level for any of these, you could easily just delete the word box.)
With the young learners classes, I typically start out by saying all the words in the box, and having them repeat after me.  Then, I check the meaning of words in the box by describing the words in random order (e.g. "This is the opposite of up", "This is what you call someone you love") and having the class shout out the answers.  Then I play the song, and have the students fill in the sheet.  We check the answers as a class, and then I write the answers up on the board.  (If they missed any  words, I play the song again).  Then when all the answers have been filled in, I play the song one last time just so they can listen and check anything they missed.  (The answer sheet is usually just for my own benefit, and I don't usually hand that out to the class.)
In order to avoid cluttering up the blog, I've hidden away all the songsheets back in August 2003, and will just use this post to index them.
Notes:
1).  The list at the top of the post is only for songs I use to practice general listening fluency and to provide general exposure to the language.  Songs I use to illustrate specific grammar points are already posted elsewhere on this blog, but  I'll index them here as well:
2nd Conditionals
* If I Were a Boy by Beyonce 
* If 6 Was 9 by Jimi Hendrix 
3rd Conditional
* If It Hadn't Been for Love by Adele
Gerunds
* Wishing and Hoping by Dusty Springfield
Modal Verbs:
* I Should be Proud by Martha and the Vandellas
Negative Verbs
* You Don't Own Me by Leslie Gore
Passive
*The Banks are Made of Marble by Pete Seeger 
Present Tense Verbs
* Present Tense Verbs using "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
Present Perfect
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2   
Reported Speech
* The Letter by The Box Tops
*Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals
Used to
* It’s All Over Now by The Rolling Stones
Will for Future Predictions
* Que Sera Sera by Doris Day 
Wish
* Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy by Leslie Gore 
Would + base form (for repeated past actions)
* Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield

2). The list above is a combination of songs I've chosen for my own reasons, and songs the students have asked me to do.
There is some difference of opinion in my staff room regarding student song requests.  One colleague has noted that students tend to request songs they already know by heart, thereby decreasing the value of the listening practice.  (He noticed that with songs students have requested, they often can fill in all the missing words before the song is even played, and he stopped taking student requests after this.)
Another colleague told me he thinks it is his purpose to introduce the students to new songs that they would not otherwise have encountered, and so also does not take student requests.
While I recognize the value of both of these arguments, I have also read a lot of material that talks about the value of allowing student participation in choosing classroom materials, so I have tried to honor student requests.  I also, particularly with the young learners, view the purpose of songs in the classroom as primarily to increase exposure to the language, and listening skills are secondary, so it's  not always a problem if they already know the words.
However, for the reasons my colleagues have mentioned above, I do try and split the difference--one day doing their song requests, one day doing my songs.
The musical tastes of my 11-15 year old students are not always in sync with my own, and there are any number of songs on this list that I would have completely avoided if left to my own devices.  They should probably be obvious from looking at the list (Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, One Direction, et cetera).
There are also songs on this list which I do not consider ideal for language practice because of the banality or repetitiveness of the lyrics, but have done anyway because of my commitment to honor student requests, like the song Baby by Justin Bieber, which for most of the song is just the same word repeated over and over again.  But I had a class plead with me to do that song a couple years ago. I agreed to do it, but I couldn't resist making the songsheet up slightly tongue-in-cheek, by making the missing word in several stanzas simply be "baby".  Before playing the song, I told the students "There's a certain word you're going to be using a lot on this song.  I'll give you a hint--it starts with a "B".  I also didn't much care for "As Long as You Love Me", also by Bieber, for the same reasons, but made the songsheet up anyway.   (Because these Justin Beibers songs are so repetitive, I didn't think they were ideal for language practice.  But to be fair, some of the songs I've included can be just as repetitive--like Think by Aretha Franklin.)

3).  The song When I'm Gone is also a student request.  It actually lead to a bit of an "Abbot and Costello" moment in my Young Learners class.  The students were complaining that all the songs I used were too old, and one of the girls said, "Teacher, next time can you do the song When I'm Gone."  To which I responded, "Okay, I guess, if you dislike it that much.  When are you going to be gone?"  There were several more back and forths between me and the whole class before I finally figured out When I'm Gone was the name of the song.

4). Related to the above point, not all of these songs have gone over great with the Young Learners.  Although you never know what will be popular and what won't be.  Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles was a surprise hit in one of my classes.

4).  I used to be limited to only the songs I had in my CD collection.  (Part of the reason there are so many Beatles songs on this list.)  But recently we've gotten computers in every classroom, and just about every song you could ever want is on youtube, so that means pretty much the sky is the limit for any song I want to do.
A couple of these songs, however, have multiple versions on Youtube.  Hit the Road Jack and Think have some versions where the lyrics are slightly different than my songsheet.  In both cases, my songsheet is based off of the single version of these songs.  (Although Hit the Road Jack appears to have a couple different versions claiming to be the official single release.)  Secret Agent Man also has a couple different versions flying about--possibly because of the difference between the single version and the TV theme version?

5) Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic is slightly different than the other songsheets. It was designed for advanced older learners instead of younger learners, and in an effort to keep their attention I deliberately made it as challenging as possible. (They weren't expected to successfully get all the words, but just to have a go at getting as many as they can.)  There's a pun included in that song, "cunning linguist", which does violate my rule of thumb about never using any songs in the classroom that have inappropriate lyrics, but I let this one slide because I was relatively sure my students would not catch the reference.  This assumption proved to be correct.

6) Nations of the World by The Animaniacs is great for helping classes with some of their geography (in English), despite the fact that the song isn't completely accurate.  (It includes a number of places which aren't technically countries, and omits other places that actually are countries.  SEE HERE for more information.)  But I still figure that on the whole it does more good than harm in terms of exposing students to English names for countries.  And it's a fun song.

TESOL Songsheets

(TESOL ideas)

22 by Taylor Swift



50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon



A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke



Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell



All the Words in the English Language by The Animaniacs



As Long As You Love Me by Justin Bieber



Baby by Justin Bieber



Back to December by Taylor Swift



Blank Space by Taylor Swift



Bus Stop by The Hollies



Don't Let Me Down by The Beatles



Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone



Frankie and Johnny by Sam Cooke



Get Ready by The Temptations



Hey Jude by The Beatles



Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles



I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs



I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift



I Should be Proud by Martha and the Vandellas



If It Hadn't Been For Love by Adele



Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) by Paul Revere and the Raiders



(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone by The Monkees



Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice



Jesus Gave Me Water by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers



Let Her Go by Passenger



Let it Be by The Beatles



Let It Go by Demi Lovato



Listen by Beyonce



Love Potion Number 9 by The Searchers



Money (That's What I Want) by The Beatles



Nations of the World by The Animaniacs



O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps



People Got to be Free by The Rascals



Poison Ivy by The Coasters



Respect by Aretha Franklin



Revolution by The Beatles



Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers



She's Not There by The Zombies



Shop Around by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles



Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield



Stop the War Now by Edwin Starr



Sweet Cherry Wine by Tommy James and the Shondells



Tacky by Weird Al Yankovic



The Games People Play by Joe South



The Man by Aloe Blacc



The Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett



The Presidents Song by The Animaniacs



Think by Aretha Franklin



U.N. Me by The Animaniacs



Valerie by Amy Winehouse


War by Edwin Starr



What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin



When I'm Gone (Cups) by Anna Kendrick



Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic



You and I by One Direction



You've Really Got a Hold on Me by The Beatles




I've been on a real kick lately to use songs more and more in my classes.  Although I use to think bringing in too many songs was the sign of a lazy TESOL teacher, I've been learning a lot of things lately that have changed my mind.  A lot of the literature I've read on young learners in particular has caused me to think I should focus less on the grammar, and more on simply trying to maximize their exposure to the language whatever why I can. (Much of the literature I've read on Young Learners says that they can not analyze grammar points as well as older learners, but can absorb a fair amount of the language simply by exposure.)  So, in addition to a steady diet of Graded Readers, I've been making it a point to do one song every lesson. 
In this day and age, when the lyrics to everything are already on the Internet, it's easy enough for anyone to design these sheets by themselves.  So I'm not sure anyone really needs me to post my own.
However, having gone through the trouble of making them once, I want to keep track of the songsheets I've designed just for my own benefit in case I end up repeating any of these songs.  And this blog is a good place to do it.  And if anyone else out there happens to find them useful, so much the better.
The songsheets are all fill in the blank.  The words needed for the blanks are all in a box at the top.  (Although if you wanted to increase the challenge level for any of these, you could easily just delete the word box.)
With the young learners classes, I typically start out by saying all the words in the box, and having them repeat after me.  Then, I check the meaning of words in the box by describing the words in random order (e.g. "This is the opposite of up", "This is what you call someone you love") and having the class shout out the answers.  Then I play the song, and have the students fill in the sheet.  We check the answers as a class, and then I write the answers up on the board.  (If they missed any  words, I play the song again).  Then when all the answers have been filled in, I play the song one last time just so they can listen and check anything they missed.  (The answer sheet is usually just for my own benefit, and I don't usually hand that out to the class.)
In order to avoid cluttering up the blog, I've hidden away all the songsheets back in August 2003, and will just use this post to index them.
Notes:
1).  The list at the top of the post is only for songs I use to practice general listening fluency and to provide general exposure to the language.  Songs I use to illustrate specific grammar points are already posted elsewhere on this blog, but  I'll index them here as well:
2nd Conditionals
* If I Were a Boy by Beyonce 
* If 6 Was 9 by Jimi Hendrix 
Gerunds
* Wishing and Hoping by Dusty Springfield
Modal Verbs:
* I Should be Proud by Martha and the Vandellas
Negative Verbs
* You Don't Own Me by Leslie Gore
Passive
*The Banks are Made of Marble by Pete Seeger 
Present Perfect
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2   
Reported Speech
* The Letter by The Box Tops
*Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals
Will for Future Predictions
* Que Sera Sera by Doris Day 
Wish
* Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy by Leslie Gore 

2). The list above is a combination of songs I've chosen for my own reasons, and songs the students have asked me to do.
There is some difference of opinion in my staff room regarding student song requests.  One colleague has noted that students tend to request songs they already know by heart, thereby decreasing the value of the listening practice.  (He noticed that with songs students have requested, they often can fill in all the missing words before the song is even played, and he stopped taking student requests after this.)
Another colleague told me he thinks it is his purpose to introduce the students to new songs that they would not otherwise have encountered, and so also does not take student requests.
While I recognize the value of both of these arguments, I have also read a lot of material that talks about the value of allowing student participation in choosing classroom materials, so I have tried to honor student requests.  I also, particularly with the young learners, view the purpose of songs in the classroom as primarily to increase exposure to the language, and listening skills are secondary, so it's  not always a problem if they already know the words.
However, for the reasons my colleagues have mentioned above, I do try and split the difference--one day doing their song requests, one day doing my songs.
The musical tastes of my 11-15 year old students are not always in sync with my own, and there are any number of songs on this list that I would have completely avoided if left to my own devices.  They should probably be obvious from looking at the list (Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, One Direction, et cetera).
There are also songs on this list which I do not consider ideal for language practice because of the banality or repetitiveness of the lyrics, but have done anyway because of my commitment to honor student requests, like the song Baby by Justin Bieber, which for most of the song is just the same word repeated over and over again.  But I had a class plead with me to do that song a couple years ago. I agreed to do it, but I couldn't resist making the songsheet up slightly tongue-in-cheek, by making the missing word in several stanzas simply be "baby".  Before playing the song, I told the students "There's a certain word you're going to be using a lot on this song.  I'll give you a hint--it starts with a "B".  I also didn't much care for "As Long as You Love Me", also by Bieber, for the same reasons, but made the songsheet up anyway.   (Because these Justin Beibers songs are so repetitive, I didn't think they were ideal for language practice.  But to be fair, some of the songs I've included can be just as repetitive--like Think by Aretha Franklin.)

3).  The song When I'm Gone is also a student request.  It actually lead to a bit of an "Abbot and Costello" moment in my Young Learners class.  The students were complaining that all the songs I used were too old, and one of the girls said, "Teacher, next time can you do the song When I'm Gone."  To which I responded, "Okay, I guess, if you dislike it that much.  When are you going to be gone?"  There were several more back and forths between me and the whole class before I finally figured out When I'm Gone was the name of the song.

4). Related to the above point, not all of these songs have gone over great with the Young Learners.  Although you never know what will be popular and what won't be.  Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles was a surprise hit in one of my classes.

4).  I used to be limited to only the songs I had in my CD collection.  (Part of the reason there are so many Beatles songs on this list.)  But recently we've gotten computers in every classroom, and just about every song you could ever want is on youtube, so that means pretty much the sky is the limit for any song I want to do.
A couple of these songs, however, have multiple versions on Youtube.  Hit the Road Jack and Think have some versions where the lyrics are slightly different than my songsheet.  In both cases, my songsheet is based off of the single version of these songs.  (Although Hit the Road Jack appears to have a couple different versions claiming to be the official single release.)  Secret Agent Man also has a couple different versions flying about--possibly because of the difference between the single version and the TV theme version? 

5) Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic is slightly different than the other songsheets. It was designed for advanced older learners instead of younger learners, and in an effort to keep their attention I deliberately made it as challenging as possible. (They weren't expected to successfully get all the words, but just to have a go at getting as many as they can.)  There's a pun included in that song, "cunning linguist", which does violate my rule of thumb about never using any songs in the classroom that have inappropriate lyrics, but I let this one slide because I was relatively sure my students would not catch the reference.  This assumption proved to be correct.

6) Nations of the World by The Animaniacs is great for helping classes with some of their geography (in English), despite the fact that the song isn't completely accurate.  (It includes a number of places which aren't technically countries, and omits other places that actually are countries.  SEE HERE for more information.)  But I still figure that on the whole it does more good than harm in terms of exposing students to English names for countries.  And it's a fun song.

Nations of the World by The Animaniacs (TESOL Songsheet)

(TESOL Songsheets)

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Nations of the World by The Animaniacs (1993)

Brazil, gone, Greece, Iran, Japan, Peru, piece, Spain, Sudan, Taiwan, too, Vietnam

And now, the nations of the world.  Brought to you by Yakko Warner.

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, _____________,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean
Greenland, El Salvador _____________.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, _____________.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.

Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now in one _____________,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and _____________.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and _____________.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and _____________.

India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, _____________.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, _____________,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and _____________.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.

Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is _____________,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylvania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, _____________.

And now, the nations of the world.  Brought to you by Yakko Warner.

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.

Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now in one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.

India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.

Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylvania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan.

The Presidents Song by The Animaniacs (TESOL Songsheet)

(TESOL Songsheets)

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The Presidents Song by The Animaniacs (1995)

days, fat, hated, lot, night, one, power, say, six, three, tree, two, war

High ho! Do you know the names of the US residents who then became the presidents and got a view from the White House loo of Pennsylvania Avenue?
George Washington was the first, you see
He once chopped down a cherry ___________
President number two would be
John Adams and then Number ___________
Tom Jefferson stayed up to write
The Constitution late at night
So he and his wife had a great big fight
And she made him sleep on the couch all ___________
James Madison never had a son
then he fought the War of 1812
James Monroe's colossal nose
Was bigger than Pinocchio’s
John Quincy Adams was number ___________
And it's Andrew Jackson's butt he kicked
So Jackson learns to play politics
Next time he's the one that the country picks
Martin Van Buren number eight
For a one term shot as chief of state
William Harrison, how do you praise
That guy was dead in thirty ___________!
John Tyler he liked country folk
And after him came President Polk
Zachary Taylor liked to smoke
His breath killed friends whenever he spoke
1850, really nifty
Millard Fillmore's in
Young and fierce was Franklin Pierce
The man without a chin
Follows next a period spanning
Four long years with James Buchanan
Then the South start shooting cannon
And we've got a civil ___________
A war!  A war down south in Dixie!
Up to bat comes old Abe Lincoln
There's a guy who's really thinking

Kept the United States from shrinking
Saved the ship of state from sinking
Andrew Johnson's next
He had some slight defects
Congress each would impeach
And so the county now elects
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Who would scream and rave and rant
While drinking whiskey
Although risky
Cause he'd spill it on his pants
It's 1877 and the democrats would gloat
But they're all amazed when Rutherford Hayes
Wins by just one vote
James Garfield, someone really ___________
Cause he was assassinated
Chester Arthur gets instated
Four years later he was traded
For Grover Cleveland, really ___________
Elected twice as a democrat
Then Benjamin Harrison after that
It's William McKinley up at bat
Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill
And President Taft he got the bill
In 1913 Woodrow Wiiilllllllson
Takes us into World War ___________
Warren Harding next in line

It's Calvin Coolidge he does fine

And then in 1929
The market crashes and we find
It's Herbert Hoover's big debut
He gets the blame and loses to
Franklin Roosevelt, President who
Helped us win in World War ___________
Harry Truman, weird little human
Serves two terms and when he's done
It's Eisenhower who's got the ___________
From '53 to '61
John Kennedy had Camelot
Then Lyndon Johnson took his spot
Richard Nixon he gets caught
And Gerald Ford fell down a ___________
Jimmy Carter liked campaign trips
And Ronald Regan's speeches' scripts
All came from famous movie clips
And President Bush said "read my lips"
Now in Washington D.C.
It's Democrats and the G.O.P.
But the ones in charge are plain to see
The Clintons, Bill and Hillary
The next President to lead the way
Well, it just might be yourself one day
Then the press'll distort everything you ___________
So jump in your plane and fly away

Answers:

High ho! Do you know, The names of the US residents
Who then became the presidents
And got a view from the White House loo
Of Pennsylvania Avenue
George Washington was the first, you see
He once chopped down a cherry tree
President number two would be
John Adams and then Number three
Tom Jefferson stayed up to write
The Constitution late at night
So he and his wife had a great big fight
And she made him sleep on the couch all night
James Madison never had a son
then he fought the War of 1812
James Monroe's colossal nose
Was bigger than Pinocchio’s
John Quincy Adams was number six
And it's Andrew Jackson's butt he kicked
So Jackson learns to play politics
Next time he's the one that the country picks
Martin Van Buren number eight
For a one term shot as chief of state
William Harrison, how do you praise
That guy was dead in thirty days!
John Tyler he liked country folk
And after him came President Polk
Zachary Taylor liked to smoke
His breath killed friends whenever he spoke
1850, really nifty
Millard Fillmore's in
Young and fierce was Franklin Pierce
The man without a chin
Follows next a period spanning
Four long years with James Buchanan
Then the South start shooting cannon
And we've got a civil war
A war!  A war down south in Dixie!
Up to bat comes old Abe Lincoln
There's a guy who's really thinking

Kept the United States from shrinking
Saved the ship of state from sinking
Andrew Johnson's next
He had some slight defects
Congress each would impeach
And so the county now elects
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Who would scream and rave and rant
While drinking whiskey
Although risky
Cause he'd spill it on his pants
It's 1877 and the democrats would gloat
But they're all amazed when Rutherford Hayes
Wins by just one vote
James Garfield, someone really hated
Cause he was assassinated
Chester Arthur gets instated
Four years later he was traded
For Grover Cleveland, really fat
Elected twice as a democrat
Then Benjamin Harrison after that
It's William McKinley up at bat
Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill
And President Taft he got the bill
In 1913 Woodrow Wiiilllllllson
Takes us into World War One
Warren Harding next in line

It's Calvin Coolidge he does fine

And then in 1929
The market crashes and we find
It's Herbert Hoover's big debut
He gets the blame and loses to
Franklin Roosevelt, President who
Helped us win in World War Two
Harry Truman, weird little human
Serves two terms and when he's done
It's Eisenhower who's got the power
From '53 to '61
John Kennedy had Camelot
Then Lyndon Johnson took his spot
Richard Nixon he gets caught
And Gerald Ford fell down a lot
Jimmy Carter liked campaign trips
And Ronald Regan's speeches' scripts
All came from famous movie clips
And President Bush said "read my lips"
Now in Washington D.C.
It's Democrats and the G.O.P.
But the ones in charge are plain to see
The Clintons, Bill and Hillary
The next President to lead the way
Well, it just might be yourself one day
Then the press'll distort everything you say
So jump in your plane and fly away

All the Worlds in the English Language by The Animaniacs (TESOL Songsheet)

(TESOL Songsheets)

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All the Worlds in the English Language by The Animaniacs (1995)

action, adored, afraid, lie, limousine, lover, Zaire, zebra, zombie

And now, Yakko Warner sings all of the words in the English language!

Aardvark, abating, abet, abdicating

Abandon, abase and abreast

Ablaze and ablution, abhor and abusion

Abbreviate, abbey, abscessed.

Abduct and ablation, abridge and abrasion

Abash and abrupt and abride

Abscond and absentia, absent, abstentia

Abdomen, ably, abide.

Abominable, abrogate, absolute, absent

Absorbent, abstention, abstraction

Absurd and abundant, abusive, abutment

Acacia, academy, __________________.

Accede and accost and accept and across

And accompany, acre, accord

Accomplish, account and accrue and amount

Acrimonious, active, __________________.

Adrenaline, adulate, adder and advocate

Advertise, adverse, abrade

Advice, adversarial, advent and aerial

Affluent, after, __________________.

Well, there it is: Yakko Warner now well under way in singing all the words in the English language. I'm Dot Warner.  With me is Dick Button. Dick, a good start?

Oh, yes, Dot—a marvellous start to what is a difficult, difficult routine.

Stay tuned, and we'll be back to bring you the whole thing.

Level and levity, lewd and longevity

Libel, libation, Lanai

Lithium, litigate, legal, legitimate

Liberty, levy and __________________.

Welcome back. Yakko's now at the L's as he tries to sing all the words in the English language. A slight mistake at the F's—here's what it looked like:

Facial and faction and fractal and fraction

And fraudulent, fragrant, frappé

Frankincense, frankinship frankinsish shoot!

Yada yada flambé!

Now, that mistake could have proved costly for Yakko, but he recovered beautifully.

Now let's watch as Yakko continues with the L's.

Libation and libertine, limited, __________________.  

Limpid and limbo and lime

Lima and lipid and literature, liquid

And listing and liter and line.

There's lobby and loading and loathsome and loaning

And logo and then locomotion

There's lotus and lottery, lobo, lobotomy

Logic and loosen and lotion.

Lozenge and lubber and lucky and __________________

And lullaby, lumber and Luke

Luster and luscious and lunatic, lustrous

And lurking and lunar and lute.

Yakko's now about halfway through all the words in the English language. Dick Button and I will be back with more.

Zachary, Zanzibar, zappy and zamindar

Zillion and ZIP code and Zen

Zany and zoning and zeal and zirconium

Zodiac, __________________, zayin.

Yakko Warner, now moments away from having sung all the words in the English language. Dick Button, is he going to make it?

If it was anyone else, I'd say no, but he's young, he's resilient; we'll just have to see.

Zigging and zagging and zealous and __________________.  

And zenith and zap and zaffer

Zeppelin and zipper and zephyr and zither

Then zinc and zombini

And zoo and zucchini

And Zulu and Zorro

Then zit and Zamora

And zero and zoom and…ugh!

Guess not…

Wait!   _________________! 

He did it! Yakko Warner has just sung all the words in the English language!

Hey, congratulations, Yakko.

Thanks, Dick.

Join us next time, when Yakko Warner will sing all of the numbers above zero. Goodnight.

Answers:

And now, Yakko Warner sings all of the words in the English language!

Aardvark, abating, abet, abdicating

Abandon, abase and abreast

Ablaze and ablution, abhor and abusion

Abbreviate, abbey, abscessed.

Abduct and ablation, abridge and abrasion

Abash and abrupt and abride

Abscond and absentia, absent, abstentia

Abdomen, ably, abide.

Abominable, abrogate, absolute, absent

Absorbent, abstention, abstraction

Absurd and abundant, abusive, abutment

Acacia, academy, action.

Accede and accost and accept and across

And accompany, acre, accord

Accomplish, account and accrue and amount

Acrimonious, active, adored.

Adrenaline, adulate, adder and advocate

Advertise, adverse, abrade

Advice, adversarial, advent and aerial

Affluent, after, afraid.

Well, there it is: Yakko Warner now well under way in singing all the words in the English language. I'm Dot Warner.  With me is Dick Button. Dick, a good start?

Oh, yes, Dot—a marvellous start to what is a difficult, difficult routine.

Stay tuned, and we'll be back to bring you the whole thing.

Level and levity, lewd and longevity

Libel, libation, Lanai

Lithium, litigate, legal, legitimate

Liberty, levy and lie.

Welcome back. Yakko's now at the L's as he tries to sing all the words in the English language. A slight mistake at the F's—here's what it looked like:

Facial and faction and fractal and fraction

And fraudulent, fragrant, frappé

Frankincense, frankinship frankinsish shoot!

Yada yada flambé!

Now, that mistake could have proved costly for Yakko, but he recovered beautifully.

Now let's watch as Yakko continues with the L's.

Libation and libertine, limited, limousine

Limpid and limbo and lime

Lima and lipid and literature, liquid

And listing and liter and line.

There's lobby and loading and loathsome and loaning

And logo and then locomotion

There's lotus and lottery, lobo, lobotomy

Logic and loosen and lotion.

Lozenge and lubber and lucky and lover

And lullaby, lumber and Luke

Luster and luscious and lunatic, lustrous

And lurking and lunar and lute.

Yakko's now about halfway through all the words in the English language. Dick Button and I will be back with more.

Zachary, Zanzibar, zappy and zamindar

Zillion and ZIP code and Zen

Zany and zoning and zeal and zirconium

Zodiac, zombie, zayin.

Yakko Warner, now moments away from having sung all the words in the English language. Dick Button, is he going to make it?

If it was anyone else, I'd say no, but he's young, he's resilient; we'll just have to see.

Zigging and zagging and zealous and zebra

And zenith and zap and zaffer

Zeppelin and zipper and zephyr and zither

Then zinc and zombini

And zoo and zucchini

And Zulu and Zorro

Then zit and Zamora

And zero and zoom and…ugh!

Guess not…

Wait!  Zaire! 

He did it! Yakko Warner has just sung all the words in the English language!

Hey, congratulations, Yakko.

Thanks, Dick.

Join us next time, when Yakko Warner will sing all of the numbers above zero. Goodnight.