The songs “Galway Girl” and “Love You Till the End” always reminds me of the beautiful days in Ireland.
“Galway Girl" is a song written by Steve Earle and recorded with Irish musician Shron Shannon, which was featured on Earle’s 2000 album Transdental Blues. A cover version of the song by Mundy and Shannon reached number one and became the most downloaded and the highest-selling single of 2008 in Ireland, and has gone on to become the eighth highest selling single in Irish chart history. “Galway Girl" tells the semi-autobiographical story of the singer’s reaction to a beautiful black haired blue eyed girl he meets in Galway, Ireland. The song appears in the 2007 film P.S. I Love You, where Gerard Butler’s character sings the song for Hilary Swank’s character. This was also sung by Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character to Hilary Swank.
Galway girl–lyrics
Galway girl–Mundy & Sharon Shannon
Galway girl–Gerard Butler
In the sorromantic film P.S. I Love You, the song “Love You Till the End” by the Pogues tells how deeply a man loves a woman. Simple, but pure.
Carol Brown is a cynical song by Jemaine and Bret, describing how girls dump their boys. In fact, the idea originates from a classic song 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon. In other words, Carol Brown is an homage to the Paul Simon’s song 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, in which the singer suggests a number of ways that a man can escape an unwanted relationship.
In the MV, Jemaine pretends to play a small videotape editing console with a guitar neck attached to it. Bret plays a similar contraption consisting of a bass guitar neck attached to a video mixer console. Jemaine is accompanied by a chorus of women playing his ex-girlfriends. They sing about his many deficiencies as a boyfriend.
Teachers can ask their students in groups to complete the following missions.
Write down the girls’ names in the MV.
Describe how or why the girls dump the poor guy.
Carol Brown (Choir of Ex-girlfriends)
Exercise: Please watch the video of “50 ways to leave your lover” by Paul Simon. Figure out what is wrong with Jack, Stan, Roy, Gus, and Lee.
Somehow, the above two songs remind Ben of a Taiwanese song The Revenge of the Renewed Man by The Chairman. (新男性的復仇/董事長樂團)
It is said that women are sentimental creatures. True. Sometimes, girls cares so much about their beloved ones but in vain. Girls are heartbroken, considerning it the end of the world. On the contrary, boys usually take the rough with the smooth, thinking of it as the end of the day. No big deal, and not a problem. That is not fair, but you can’t help it.
Let her go is soothing, and somehow it exerts a positive effect through catharsis. Whenever you feel down because of parting agony or anything like that, you may listen to it at night; cry, if you want. Pick up your pieces because the show must go on.
The Mom Song describes what a typical mom says to her kids every day in detail, which makes itself a masterpiece to practice the imperative mood. American comedian Anita Renfroe, a mother parenting three kids, parodied moms’ everyday nagging woven into Italian composer Rossini’s William Tell Overture. The Mom Song is known as William Tell Momism as a result.
The Mom Song with captions
The Mom Song without captions
After the song shot to fame, Anita Renfroe received measurable feedback from the whole world and later The Dad Song was staged.
The Dad Song
Not surprisingly, the victims of The Mom Song responded to the parenting issue in the same way.
The Child Song
For your further learning, both men and women might be interested in The Woman Song regardless of some lyrics not decent enough for kids.
The Woman Song
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Exercise: Please transcribe the following two songs
The song “It wasn’t me” by Shaggy is perfect for learners to get a taste of diverse accents, despite the fact that its lyrics and MV may not be considered elegant enough for old-school teaching minds. Based on author’s teaching experience, learners (boys and girls) loved this song to the extent that some of them even memorized the lyrics and imitated the singers’ tones and intonations. Empirically speaking, the song is better taught at the level of senior high instead of junior high because junior highs may not be mature enough to focus on the features of accents or colloquial usage. Their attention may be diverted to the erotic side of the song and its MV, which is definitely not the purpose of teaching this song. What is worse, teachers may be haunted by phone calls from students’ parents for choosing the wrong song; surely it is not a part of their plan.
Benology 阿賓。學 