I was asked to sing some American songs and...
I can't remember the words to:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
The Pledge of Allegiance
The Star Spangled Banner
(Songs which I KNOW I know)
I can remember the words to:
I Know How Ugly I Are (a song in which grammar and the English language are thrown out the window)
There's some irony here...
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!
When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark,—
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.[2][3][4]
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."[1]
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave![10]
You'll have to get the I Know How Ugly I Are from someone else because I don't know those lyrics, of course.
A frog am a funny lookin' boy
Him ain't got no tali almost hardly
Him yump and him yump
And him yump and him yump
And him ain't got no tail almost hardly
I know how ugly I are
My face it ain't no star
But I don't mind it
Because I'm behind it
The fellow in front gets the jar, some jar
When the bats in your bellfry go flut (tweet tweet)
And your comprendez-vous cords are cut (tweet tweet)
And there's nobody home in the top of your dome
And your head's not a head, it's a nut (crack crack)
I know how ugly I are
My face it ain't no star
But I don't mind it
Because I'm behind it
The fellow in front gets the jar, some jar
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