Music @ Home - Lyric Writing Project To help you write lyrics, have a go at rewriting someone else’s lyrics. Its fun and gets your head into the task! Here you have 2 classic songs, one acoustic (sang); one a rap song. Find them both on Youtube and sing them along first! "What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong - My Lyrics Below I see trees of green. ____________________________________________ Red roses too. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ I see them bloom ____________________________________________ For me and you ____________________________________________ And I think to myself ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ What a wonderful world ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ I see skies of blue ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ And clouds of white ____________________________________________ The bright blessed day ____________________________________________ The dark sacred night ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ And I think to myself ____________________________________________ What a wonderful world ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ The colors of the rainbow ____________________________________________ So pretty in the sky ____________________________________________ Are also on the faces ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Of people going by ____________________________________________ I see friends shaking hands ____________________________________________ Saying, "How do you do?" ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ They're really saying ____________________________________________ "I love you" ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ I hear babies cry ____________________________________________ I watch them grow ____________________________________________ They'll learn much more ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Than I'll never know ____________________________________________ And I think to myself ____________________________________________ What a wonderful world ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Yes, I think to myself ____________________________________________ What a wonderful world ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Oh yeah ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (Find on Youtube, listen to it and rap it along first, its really good and uses some good ideas like repeating good lines - its all about skateboarding!) First got it when he was six didn't know any ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ tricks ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Matter fact first time he got on it he slipped ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Landed on his hip and busted his lip ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ For a week he had to talk with a lisp like this ___________________________________________ Now we can end the story right here ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ But shorty didn't quit it was something in the air ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Yea he said it was something so appealing ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ He couldn't fight the feeling something about it ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ He knew he couldn't doubt it couldn't ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ understand it brand it ___________________________________________ Since the first kick flip he landed ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Labeled a misfit a bandit cucump cucump ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ cucump ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ His neighbors couldn't stand it ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ So he was banished to the park started in the ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ morning ___________________________________________ Wouldn't stop till after dark ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Yea when they said its getting late in here so ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ I'm sorry young man there's no skating here ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ So he kick push kick push kick push kick push ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ coast ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ And away he rolled jus' a rebel to the world with ___________________________________________ no place to go ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ So he kick push kick push kick push kick push ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ coast ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ So come and skate with me just a rebel looking ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ for a place to be ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ So lets kick and push and coast ___________________________________________ My man got a little older became a better a ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ roller ____________________________________________ Yea no helmet hell he'll end up killing himself ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Is what his momma said but he was feeling ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ himself ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Got a little more swagger in his style ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Met his girlfriend she was clapping in the ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ crowd ____________________________________________ Love is what was happening to him now ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ He said I would marry but I'm engaged to the ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ aerials and varials ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ And I don't think this board is strong enough to ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ carry two ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ She said bow I weigh a hundred and twenty ____________________________________________ pounds ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Now let me make one thing clear I don't need ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ to ride yours I got mine right here ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ So she took him to a spot he didn't know about ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Something odd in a apartment parking lot she ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ said I don't normally take dates in here ____________________________________________ Security came and said I'm sorry there's no ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ skating here ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ So they kick push kick push kick push kick ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ push coast ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ And away they roll jus lovers in the twine with ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ no place to go ____________________________________________ So they kick push kick push kick push kick ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ push coast ____________________________________________