keti_torotadze@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Hi. I am a teacher of the English Language from Tbilisi, Georgia. I
> have often heard my students say that they find it difficult to
> distinguish words in songs performed by native English or American
> singers. To be honest, the task is rather problematic to me too. I
> have got some very good songs by Mitch Woods but I'd like to have the
> lyrics too so that we can hear not only the music and melody but the
> words as well. The songs are "Blue Boogie", "Easy Street", "Palm Tree
> Tie","Please Don't Leave Me", "Swinging At The Savoy", "Jive,
> Mr.Boogie", "Jump For Joy", "10th and Parker Blues". I would be very
> grateful to anybody who sends me the lyrics of even just one of these
> songs to my e-mail address: keti_torotadze@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you.
You need to do some creative searching [1] via Yahoo, Google or whoever
takes your fancy. It wasn't hard to come up with this:
http://music.yahoo.com/Mitch-Woods--His-Rocket-88s/House-Of-Blue-Lights/lyrics/891790
The lyrics there are for "House of Blue Lights"
Seek and ye shall find the rest
[1] The best way to see if there are lyrics out there for a given song is
to
find a distinctive phrase or two in the song that you are sure of (other
than the title) and plug it into an engine. Frinstance, having found the
example above, if I'd heard it and was sure he was singing "lose your
lead"
and "detroit barbecue ribs" I'd try those two and they would lead me to
the
Chuck Berry original in several places.
--
John Dean
Oxford
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