Language/English/Vocabulary/Best-Songs-to-Learn

Please edit this page to tell us what songs helped you learn English. Songs that are easy to understand and lyrics easy to remember.

For example, songs that helped you remember a word, an expression or a grammar rule.

Like the Beatles song "When I'm Sixty four", helped me remember that after "When", one must use the present tense and not the past tense (like in French).

Thanks for your contributions :)

When I'm 64 (Beatles)

Lyrics

When I get older losing my hair Many years from now Will you still be sending me a valentine Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I'm sixty-four? You'll be older too And if you say the word I could stay with you (...)

Yellow Submarine (Beatles)

Lyrics

In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines So we sailed up to the sun Till we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine (...)

No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley)

Lyrics

No, woman, no cry. Cause, cause, cause, I remember when we used to sit In the government yard in Trenchtown, Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites As they would mingle with the good people we meet. Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost Along the way. In this great future, you can't forget your past, So dry your tears, I seh. (...)