Here’s a song using last week’s idiom. Listen and fill in the blanks with the words you hear. Click on “Continue reading” to check your answers.

The Night We Called It a Day

Performed by Frank Sinatra

Written by Matt Dennis & Tom Adair

There was a moon out in space
But a cloud drifted over its ____1_____
You kissed me and went on your way
The night we called it a day

I heard the ____2_____ of the spheres
Like a minor lament in my ears
I hadn’t the heart left to pray
The night we called it a day

Soft through the dark
The hoot of an owl in the ____3_____
Sad though his song
No bluer was he than I

The moon went down, ____4_____ were gone
But the ____5_____ didn’t rise with the dawn
There wasn’t a thing left to say
The night we called it a day

Soft through the dark
The hoot of an owl in the ____6_____
Sad though his song
No bluer was he than I

The moon went down, ____7_____ were gone
But the ____8_____ didn’t rise with the dawn
There wasn’t a thing left to say
The night we called it a day

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Here’s a song by Tracy Chapman using last week’s Idiom of the Week. Listen to the song, fill in the blanks with the words you here, then click on “Continue reading” to check your answers.

Cold Feet

by Tracy Chapman

There was a little boy once upon a time
Who in spite of his young age and small size knew his mind
For every copper penny and clover he would find
Make a ____1_____ for better days, the end of hard times
For no more cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

His clothes were always _____2_____ His face was always scrubbed
There was food on the table enough to fill him up
His house was full of life, his house was full of love
But when _____3_____ days arrived
There was never money enough to shod his cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

He grew up to be a worker determined to succeed
He made a life for himself, free from worldly wants or needs
But nobody to share the life he’d made
Nobody to keep him _____4_____ at night
When he’d go to sleep he’d sleep alone with his cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

One night he walked the streets looking to the heavens above
Searching for a shooting star, a benevolent God
When a woman passing by brushed his arm
He turned and found love
He then wished for the courage to ask this ____5_____
Who she was to not have cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

One year later he stood beside her
He vowed, “I’ll give you everything you want”
Said, “I’ll take some _____6_____ from my heart to keep your body warm
You won’t have cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet”

He thought she’d like the party life and want the finer things
So he promised more than he could buy
He promised her the sun and _____7_____ to not have cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

He worked day and night his fingers to the bone
His worried mind, guilty conscience drive him on
He can’t give her what she needs
Wants to give her what he thinks she wants
Her sad face, his empty _____8_____ drive him on and his cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

He’d struggled all his life to be an honest man
Proud that the dirt on his palms was the soil of the land
Some guys he knew from high school days
Said they had a plan to get _____9_____ real quick
And they could count him in if he don’t have cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

He thought about their offer accepted it without qualms
Dreamt about the life he’d buy
The comfort that would come without cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

He decided to drive the car, he decided to carry the gun
To take the biggest risk of all to prove his loyalty to his friends
He decided to tell his _____10_____ things would soon turn around
He said the little boy is dead
A man stands with you now without cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet
Without cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

He thought he’d set his clock right, he thought he’d read his watch
He left in such a hurry he didn’t think to wish for luck
Makes no difference if you’re early, no difference if you’re late
When you’re out of _____11_____, the flowers have been laid
You’re six feet underground
With cold feet
Cold cold cold cold feet

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Here’s a song using last week’s idiom. It’s from perhaps the greatest rock group of all time, the Spin Doctors. Listen and fill in the blanks with the missing words. When you’re finished, check your answers by clicking on “Continue reading.”

Can’t Kick The Habit

by The Spin Doctors

Can’t kick that habit
I guess you know
What _____1________
But here I go
I can’t stand it
Facing this alone

Don’t change the subject
If it’s not clear
Don’t say you’re _____2_______
Then disappear
Because that means nothing
Nothing if you’re not here

Can’t turn it off alone

Can’t turn it off alone

Can’t turn it off alone

I can sing
But I can’t sigh
I can barely breathe the _____3____ I need
To justify why I sank so low
To get so high
I can’t kick the habit

I can’t kick the habit

I can’t kick the habit

To save my soul

One foot in ___4_____
One in the hole
My whole focus
In a poison picture show

Can’t turn it off alone

Can’t turn it off alone

Can’t turn it off alone

I can sing
But I can’t sigh
I can barely breathe the _____5____ I need
To justify why I sank so low
To get so high
I can’t kick the habit

I can’t kick the habit

If I let you in
Will you let me in?

I can’t kick the habit…

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