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Run to the Hills

Iron Maiden · 1982

Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden (1982) — 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

  • Run to the hills
  • Run for your lives
  • Run to the hills
  • Run for your lives

Sing the opening verse

  • White man came across the sea
  • He brought us pain and misery
  • He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
  • He took our game for his own need
hillslivesgame

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

White man camethe sea

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Heour tribes, he killed our creed

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Ridingdust clouds and barren wastes

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Murder fora stab in the back

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Hunting anda game

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

The only goodare tame

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

He brought us pain and misery

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

He took our game for his own need

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Out on the plains, we gave him hell

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

White man came across the sea

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

White man came ? the sea

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

He ? our game for his own need

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Oh, will we ? be set free?

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Murder for ? a stab in the back

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Raping the ? and wasting the men

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 "hills" in the whole song?

"hills"

Exercise 23

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

"lives"

Exercise 24

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

  • Murder for freedom, a stab in the back
  • Run to the hills
  • White man came across the sea

Exercise 25

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

  • He brought us pain and misery
  • Run for your lives
  • Soldier blue in the barren wastes

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Run to the Hills" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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Exercise 27

If you could ask Iron Maiden one question about "Run to the Hills", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 28

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

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Exercise 29

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Run to the Hills", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 30

"Run to the Hills" was released in 1982. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

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