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I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)

The Four Tops · 1965

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) by The Four Tops (1965) — 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 with the chorus

  • Sugar pie, honey bunch
  • You know that I love you
  • I can't help myself
  • I love you and nobody else

Sing it again — final chorus

  • Sugar pie, honey bunch
  • I'm weaker than a man should be
  • I can't help myself
  • I'm a fool in love, you see
can'thelpmyself

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Sugar pie,bunch

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Leaving just yourbehind

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

I cometo you

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Andnothing that I can do

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Girl, itthe flame

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

My love Ihide

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You know that I love you

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I love you and nobody else

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I kissed it a thousand times

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'm tied to your apron strings

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

No, I can't help myself

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Sugar pie, ? bunch

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Leaving just your ? behind

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

And ? nothing that I can do

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

But ? time I see your face

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

My love I ? hide

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 "can't" in the whole song?

"can't"

Exercise 23

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

"help"

Exercise 24

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

  • I'm weaker than a man should be
  • My love I cannot hide
  • Sugar pie, honey bunch

Exercise 25

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

  • I get all choked up inside
  • I love you and nobody else
  • You know that I love you

Exercise 26

Rewrite the chorus of "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

can'thelpmyselfsugar

Exercise 27

If you had to summarize "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

can'thelpmyselfsugar

Exercise 28

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

can'thelpmyselfsugar

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • can't→
  • i'm→
  • there's→
  • don't→
  • we're→
  • i've→

Exercise 30

Who in your life would you dedicate "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

can'thelpmyselfsugar