In my LifeType blog, my former students Annie and Hung left their response to the "English song" question.
http://www.tiec.tp.edu.tw/lifetype/post/1130/27088#comments
Here is my response to their answers.
Dear Annie and Hung,
Thank you for your response. All the three songs are among my favorites. Not only are their melodies beautiful but their lyrics inspire. Among the three, I taught "the Rose" almost every year. Its lyrics are as follows:
Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to blead
Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of wakingthat never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dyingthat never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose
I like the idea of the song that everyone can be the beginning of love. Besides the meaningful words, this song is good to review some grammatical points, such as the relative clause, the cleft sentence, and the complex sentence. The last verse of the song is only one sentence, a very complex sentence. And I often like to challenge my students to tell me how many clauses there are and where is the main verb. Since they like the song, they are willing to do the analysis. Once I asked a class to analyze the last verse, a student said kiddingly that it was a symptom of occupational disease to ask them to analyze sentences of even a song.
Click tne following URL, and you can watch Bette Midler sing the song.
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWAYLZWZBg
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