Songs for learning English Hooray! by Boney M

Today we'll travel back to the PAST with the incredible group Boney M.

This song is like a sun beam in a nasty day, it's full of romantic and real pictures of a happy life!
Here you'll find some interesting and useful words and phrases, so don't ignore the vocabulary section!
So, let's listen, sing and learn!

Digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding

Hey - di - hey - di - hoh

Digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding

Hey - di - hey - di - hoh

There's a place I know where we should go - heydiheydihoh

Won' t you take me there your lady fair -

There's a brook near-by the grass grows high -

Where we both can hide side by side - 

CHORUS:

Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday

Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday

Sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday

It's a holi-holiday

There's a country fair not far from there - heydiheydihoh

On a carousel the dingdong bell - heydiheydihoh

On the loop di loop we swing and swoop - heydiheydihoh

And what else we'll do is up to you - heydiheydihoh

CHORUS:

Well, I'm game

Fun is the thing I'm after

Now let's a'live it up today

Get set for love and laughter

Well, let's go

Time isn't here for wasting

Life is so full of sweet sweet things

I'd like to do some tasting

CHORUS:

In the country side we take a ride - heydiheydihoh

Where the stars will shine lots of time - heydiheydihoh

Back of your old car we might get far - heydiheydihoh

In the summerbreeze we feel at ease - heydiheydihoh

CHORUS:

Vocabulary


a brook - a small river 

skip - to move forwards by jumping first on one foot and then the other

loop di loop - moving in a circle

swing - to move  from one side to another

swoop - to move quickly and suddenly downwards through the air

 I'm game - I'm with you, meaning that you agree to do something with someone. 

 live it up  - to enjoy yourself by doing things that involve spending a lot of money or to enjoy yourself completely without worrying about anything.

up to you - choose yourself !

Other summer songs you might like:

• http://amberer.blogspot.com/2014/05/sing-songs-and-learn-englishmr-probz.html
•  http://amberer.blogspot.com/2014/04/songs-for-learn-english-all-of-me-by.html