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Craig! · Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 202

At morning exercises, we hear ''Oh, Susanna''
I come from Alabama, with a banjo on my knee,
I'm looking for a sweet cowboy, who can sing this song with me...
[the lyrics have been changed, for the better i think].
i can't make out the rest of the lyrics, ...gonna take a ride.... when the parties over....

i teach the song and grammar in class, because - ZHENG HAO! - i have my banjo and cowboy hat, i'm from the American west, and i look like a 'sweet cowboy'. ha!

Have you heard this song?
What English songs do you hear at your school?

KarenB · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 227 Location: Hainan

We get a lot of soft pop -- Westlife kinda stuff.

But one song I keep hearing is "By the Rivers of Babylon" -- I keep toying with the idea of teaching them this song, and telling them the words written about 2500 years ago (by the Jews taken into exile into Iraq), just to see what they would do with that information.

2 over lee · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

Tell them the words were written 5001 years ago Wink

mondrian · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:54 am Post subject:

Every morning at 6:15 we are awakened by "wallpaper" music. yesterday it was a selection from the Mikado (in Japanese!)
At 6:25 precisely the Chinese National Anthem, followed by the shouting of numbers (for exercises?). On looking out of the window I cannot see a single person out facing the world.
These sounds are blasted out to the entire residential valley where our University sits.

kev7161 · Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 5880 Location: Suzhou, China

We have "Every Sperm Is Sacred" for morning exercises (just kidding, but wouldn't THAT be a hoot if we did?).

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

Ah! At last, peace and quiet. There are no loudspeakers aimed right at our apartment building, and I think the only loudspeaker I've seen hanging from tree's trunk is broken. If there are any wake-up calls, I sure don't hear them in this school. Also, there are no annoying morning excercise chants to listen to (the "1...2...3...4...2...2...3...4...3...2...3...4...").

Now if only my apartment building is not right beside the Chemistry department's building!

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

KarenB · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 227 Location: Hainan

Ah yes! The morning exercises -- actually, that's how I learned to count when I first came to China (to 8 Cool

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One of my FT colleagues threatened dire consequences if they didn't do something about the loudspeaker (which I had become more or less inured to) pointed in our direction. Surprisingly, they turned that loudspeaker off!

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

latefordinner · Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 973

The early morning marching song at my school

Yi, er, san si
Qingdao pijiu hen hao he!
wu, liu, qi ba jiu
women xihuan he pijiu!
qi ba jiu, shi jiu ba
Women wanshang gan shenma?
ba shi jiu, he pijiu
ba jiu shi, he tai duo le