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B1.2·folk-rock·4:11

Too Sweet

Hozier · 2024

Too Sweet by Hozier (2024) — 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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • You're too sweet for me
  • You're too sweet for me
  • I take my whiskey neat
  • My coffee black and my bed at three

Echo the hook

  • Whoa-oh, oh-oh
  • Whoa-oh, oh-oh
  • Whoa-oh, oh-oh
  • Whoa-oh, oh-oh
you'resweetwhiskey

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

It can't be said I'm anbird

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Baby, I cantell

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Smelling like alost in a haze?

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

I think I'll take myneat

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

My coffeeand my bed at three

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

But whoto live forever, babe?

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

It can't be said I'm an early bird

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Baby, I can never tell

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You keep telling me to live right

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If you're drunk on life, babe

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You're too sweet for me

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

It ? be said I'm an early bird

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

You ? telling me to live right

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I ? it's great, but while in this world

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

And the ? where I go

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

But who ? to live forever, babe?

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 "you're" in the whole song?

"you're"

Exercise 23

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

"sweet"

Exercise 24

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

  • I take my whiskey neat
  • It can't be said I'm an early bird
  • The rest of you like you're the TSA

Exercise 25

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

  • It's ten o'clock before I say a word
  • Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh
  • You're too sweet for me

Exercise 26

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Too Sweet", what would happen instead?

you'resweetwhiskeyneat

Exercise 27

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

you'resweetwhiskeyneat

Exercise 28

Who in your life would you dedicate "Too Sweet" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

you'resweetwhiskeyneat

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • can't→
  • i'm→
  • it's→
  • don't→
  • gotta→
  • wanna→

Exercise 30

"Too Sweet" was released in 2024. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

you'resweetwhiskeyneat