Learn English with Songs – “All I want is you”

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It’s another “Learn English with Songs” exercise!

Now, we would love to know what music you enjoy so we can use songs that make you want to sing and dance! Please let us know in the comments section.

Have you watched the movie “Juno”?

Well, you’re in for a treat, because the soundtrack is amazing!

1. Read the lyrics
2. Understand the vocabulary
3. Watch the video and SING!

Lyrics

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I’d want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I’d want is you to shade me and be my leaves

If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I’d want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I’d want is you to shade me and be my leaves

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I’d be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were a wink, I’d be a nod
If you were a seed, well I’d be a pod.
If you were the floor, I’d wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I’d be a hug

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

If you were the wood, I’d be the fire.
If you were the love, I’d be the desire.
If you were a castle, I’d be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I’d learn to float.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

Vocabulary

Shade – an area of slight darkness that is produced when something blocks the light of the sun.

Bride – a woman who has just married or is about to be married.

Sway – to move slowly back and forth.

Rumble – to make a low, heavy, continuous sound or series of sounds.

Wink – an act of closing and opening one eye very quickly often as a way of giving a secret signal or private message to someone.

Nod – to move your head up and down as a way of answering “yes” or of showing agreement, understanding, or approval.

Seed – a small object produced by a plant from which a new plant can grow.

Pod – a long, thin part of some plants that has seeds inside.

Rug – a piece of thick, heavy material that is used to cover usually a section of a floor.

Moat –  deep, wide ditch that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked.

Float – to rest on top of a liquid.

Video