English words of Irish origin

Listen to the song excerpts and fill in the gaps using the words below.
Watch the video afterwards to check your answers as well as learn the meaning
and Irish origin of each word.

banshee clock slew trousers

bog galore slob whiskey
boycott hooligan slogan
brogue phoney smithereens

1. The Bluetones – Turn it up

What's that sound?
Like an aeroplane coming down
Like every 1. ____________________________________ in every hill
Uniting in one diabolical yell

2. Hozier – Run
To be twisted by something
A shame without a sin
Like how she twisted the 2. ____________________________________ man after she married him

3. Indigo Girls – Cordova

The volunteers, they come for your prayers and some souvenirs,
With ivory skin and 3. ____________________________________ lessons
Year after year.

4. Sam Brown – Henry

In your slate grey suit and black 4. ____________________________________ shoes
Little horn rimmed glasses
You've got nothing to lose.

5. The Script ft. Will.I.Am – Hall of fame

You can throw your hands up
You can beat the 5. ____________________________________ (yeah)
You can move a mountain
You can break rocks
You can be a master, don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself

6. Fiona Apple – Why try to change me now?

I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams 6. ____________________________________
Cigarette ashes, there they go on the floor
Go away weekends, leave my keys in the door
Why try to change me now?

7. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)

The second verse is dedicated to the men
More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women
Him and his men come in the club like 7. ____________________________________
Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen

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8. The Clash – London Calling
London calling, now don't look to us
8. ____________________________________ Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
Except for the ring of that truncheon thing

9. CocoRosie – The Moon asked the crow

Angel brother, I miss your hair
Careless nature, gentle stare
You fell like rain in the dark abysses
Kissed the lips of bloody twinses
Sung to by a 9. ____________________________________ of sirens
Tricky mermaids and evil pirates

10. Joan Osborne – One of us

What if God was one of us
Just a 10. ____________________________________ like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?

11. Paul Brady – The Island

They're raising banners over by the markets
White-washing 11. ____________________________________ on the shipyard walls
Witch doctors praying for a mighty showdown
No way our holy flag is gonna fall
Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying can lead them into glory

12. The National – Lean

And I can see your fever's on the rise
I can see the water’s in your eyes
And I can see the way the water leads
Love will lead us all to 12. ____________________________________
Dying is easy, I believe my love and my love relieves me

13. Ella Fitzgerald – Bewitched, bothered and bewildered

I'll sing to him, each spring to him
And worship the 13. ____________________________________ that cling to him
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am I

14. Don McLean – American Pie

And they were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin' 14. ____________________________________ and rye
Singin' "This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die"

*Video: https://youtu.be/8BSKN_0e7WQ

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ANSWER KEY

1. The Bluetones – Turn it up

What's that sound?
Like an aeroplane coming down
Like every banshee in every hill
Uniting in one diabolical yell

2. Hozier – Run
To be twisted by something
A shame without a sin
Like how she twisted the bog man
After she married him

3. Indigo Girls – Cordova

The volunteers, they come for your prayers and some souvenirs,
With ivory skin and boycott lessons
Year after year.

4. Sam Brown – Henry

In your slate grey suit and black brogue shoes
Little horn rimmed glasses
You've got nothing to lose.

5. The Script ft. Will.I.Am – Hall of fame

You can throw your hands up
You can beat the clock (yeah)
You can move a mountain
You can break rocks
You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself

6. Fiona Apple – Why try to change me now?

I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams galore
Cigarette ashes, there they go on the floor
Go away weekends, leave my keys in the door
Why try to change me now?

7. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)

The second verse is dedicated to the men
More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women
Him and his men come in the club like hooligans
Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen

*Video: https://youtu.be/8BSKN_0e7WQ

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8. The Clash – London Calling
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
Except for the ring of that truncheon thing

9. CocoRosie – The Moon asked the crow

Angel brother, I miss your hair
Careless nature, gentle stare
You fell like rain in the dark abysses
Kissed the lips of bloody twinses
Sung to by a slew of sirens
Tricky mermaids and evil pirates

10. Joan Osborne – One of us

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?

11. Paul Brady – The Island

They're raising banners over by the markets
White-washing slogans on the shipyard walls
Witch doctors praying for a mighty showdown
No way our holy flag is gonna fall
Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying can lead them into glory

12. The National – Lean

And I can see your fever's on the rise
I can see the water’s in your eyes
And I can see the way the water leads
Love will lead us all to smithereens
Dying is easy, I believe my love and my love relieves me

13. Ella Fitzgerald – Bewitched, bothered and bewildered

I'll sing to him, each spring to him
And worship the trousers that cling to him
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am I

14. Don McLean – American Pie

And they were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' "This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die"

*Video: https://youtu.be/8BSKN_0e7WQ

iSLCollective.com