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What'd I Say

Ray Charles · 1959

What'd I Say by Ray Charles (1959) — 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

  • When you see me in misery
  • Come on baby, see about me
  • Now yeah yeah, all right, all right, aw play it boy

Echo the hook

  • Tell me what'd I say right now
  • Tell me what'd I say
  • Tell me what'd I say right now
  • Tell me what'd I say
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Hey mama, don't youme wrong

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Allnow, hey hey, all right

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Shehow to shake that thing

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

See the girl with the redon

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Yeah yeah,I say, all right

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Uh-uh naw, What?that? I say, what's that?

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

She can do the Birdland all night long

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Tell me what'd I say

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Hey ? don't you treat me wrong

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

She ? how to shake that thing

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Now ? yeah, hey hey, all right

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

And I ? know

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Oh one more ? (just one more time)

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 "right" in the whole song?

"right"

Exercise 23

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

"baby"

Exercise 24

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

  • And I wanna know right now yeah
  • Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong
  • See the girl with the red dress on

Exercise 25

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

  • Come and love your daddy all night long
  • Hey, don't quit now! (c'mon honey)
  • Tell me what'd I say right now

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "What'd I Say" 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 Ray Charles one question about "What'd I Say", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 28

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

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't→
  • i'm→
  • gonna→
  • wanna→
  • what's→
  • it's→

Exercise 30

If you could change the ending of the story told in "What'd I Say", what would happen instead?

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