All I Wanna Do
Sheryl Crow · 1993
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Until the sun comes up
- Over Santa Monica Boulevard
- I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
- And Billy likes to peel the labels from his bottles of Bud
Sing it again — final chorus
- Until the sun comes up
- Over Santa Monica Boulevard
- Otherwise the bar is ours
- The day and the night and the car wash, too
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
And he's plain ugly to me
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
All I wanna do is have some fun
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
As they spin on the floor
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
It ain't no country club either
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
This ? no disco
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
We are ? beer at noon on Tuesday
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Back to the ? company, the record store too
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
Over ? Monica Boulevard
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
Dangerously ? to one another
Exercise 17
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 18
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Exercise 19
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Exercise 20
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Exercise 21
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Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "feeling" in the whole song?
"feeling"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "he's" in the whole song?
"he's"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- Over Santa Monica Boulevard
- This ain't no disco
- Until the sun comes up
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- And a happy couple enters the bar
- It ain't no country club either
- The sun and the moon
Exercise 26
Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?
Exercise 27
"All I Wanna Do" was released in 1993. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.
Exercise 28
Imagine you are making a short film with "All I Wanna Do" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
wanna→it's→i'm→he's→they're→won't→
Exercise 30
What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "All I Wanna Do" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.