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Dance Monkey by Tone and I WS

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DANCE MONKEY 

Complete the lyrics using one of the following words: TIME (x4), SHINE,
EYES, MINE, LIFE, STYLE, CRY, MY, BY (x2),
Then, listen again and choose the right word from the ones in italics.

They say, "Oh my Lord/God, I see the way you 1)__________


Take/hold your hands, my dear, and place/put them both in 2)______"
You know you stopped me dead while I was passing 3)_____
And now I beg/ask to see you dance just one more 4)_______

[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, I see you, see you, see you every 5)________
And oh 6)________, I, I like your 7)________
You, you make me, make me, make me wanna 8)________
And now I beg/ask to see you dance just one more 9)________

[Chorus] /ˈkɔːrəs/
So they say
Dance for me, dance for me, dance for me, oh-oh-oh
I've never seen anybody do the show/things you do before/earlier
They/we say:

www.lateacherbcn.com
Move for me, move for me, move for me, ayy-ayy-ayy
And when you’re finished/done, I'll make you do it all again

@lateacherbcn
[Verse 2]
she/I said, "Oh my God I see you walking/passing 10) ________
Take my/your hands, my dear, and look me in my 11)________"
Just like a donkey/monkey, I've been dancing’ my whole 12)_________
But you just beg to see me dance just one more 13)__________

Now, read a fragment from an interview to the Australian songwriter, Toni


Watson, better known as Tones and I, and replace each word or phrase in bold
by an equivalent word or phrase.

a) suddenly, b)success, c) song, d) blocked and irritated, e) famous song, f) told , g)quite
obvious, h)playing music in the streets to get some money, i) tranformed phrases ... into the
words of a song j)further perfomances (extra songs)

"I didn’t write this 1)track for radio. I wrote this song for the people at the Byron
Bay hostel so we could all dance to it. It’s a song about a moment where I felt
2)frustrated about how people had no patience anymore. […] If you replace the word
‘dance’ with ‘sing,’ it’s 3)pretty self-explanatory. I’ve literally 4)turned quotes that
people say to me into lyrics – they’re all very real. […] It was one night where
people just wouldn’t let me be. I’d been 5) busking for seven or eight hours, and I
had done six 6)encores. My manager 7) warned me that “Dance Monkey” wouldn’t be
a 8) big track like “Johnny Run Away.” Then 9) all of a sudden it became my biggest
10) hit (...)"

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