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Hurricane

Bob Dylan · 1976

Hurricane by Bob Dylan (1976) — selected for the English-through-music catalog. Use the sing-along prompts and exercises to drill pronunciation, vocabulary, and listening comprehension.

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🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • The man the authorities came to blame
  • For somethin' that he never done
  • Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
  • The champion of the world

Sing it again — final chorus

  • The man the authorities came to blame
  • For somethin' that he never done
  • Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
  • A champion of the world
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Pistolring out in the barroom night

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Threelyin' there does Patty see

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

'Less youdraw the heat

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Rubin's inAmerica fightin' for his name

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

We want to pin thismurder on him

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Rubinwas falsely tried

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Cries out, "My God, they've killed them all!"

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And they arrive on the scene

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

So they took him to the infirmary

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

"Don't forget that you are white"

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You'll be doin' society a favor

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Pistol ? ring out in the barroom night

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

"One of us had ? call up the cops"

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

They ? him he could identify the guilty men

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

You'll be ? society a favor

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Rubin ? was falsely tried

Exercise 17

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 18

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 19

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 20

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 21

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 22

How many times do you hear the word "time" in the whole song?

"time"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "cops" in the whole song?

"cops"

Exercise 24

Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:

  • Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
  • So they took him to the infirmary
  • Up to some paradise

Exercise 25

And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:

  • "Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
  • Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
  • No one doubted that he pulled the trigger

Exercise 26

If you could ask Bob Dylan one question about "Hurricane", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 27

Rewrite the chorus of "Hurricane" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

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Exercise 28

If you had to summarize "Hurricane" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • they've→
  • didn't→
  • that's→
  • you're→
  • wanna→
  • you'd→

Exercise 30

Describe the mood of "Hurricane" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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