Music works!- A great song about childhood

Fell in love with this song at Milow's concert, wanted to use it with students, but could not find the lyrics.
So, tried to listen and read his lips :), wrote them down and enjoyed this childhood story with my students a lot.
My students encouraged me to make this video with lyrics and upload it to YouTube. Did so.
Hope others will enjoy it just as much as we did.



Some tips for the LESSON PLAN could be as follows:

Warm-ups:
* Write down 10 keywords to describe your current life / your life 5 years ago etc (to describe the childhood, activities and games, things that are/fun etc)
* Compare your keywords with a partner / in a group. Which ones are similar /different?
OR
* There is going to be a song about a boy's childhood about 20 years ago.
Which words you think might appear in this song? Write them down. (5, 10...)
Compare them with your partner / group.
OR
* Teacher writes/presents "cowboys, pirates, musketeers" on the board.
Pupils try to guess, what could be connected to these expressions.
If the group needs more explanation, the teacher explains that there is going to be a song about a boy's childhood and this is the title- guess the words that appear in the song. (Some very common words might be excluded- I, you, and etc.)

Listening activity 1: 
* Listen to the song.
                 - Which words in the song are similar / different compared to your words?
            OR - Try to catch the words you expected to appear in the song.
* Discussion: What is similar /different in his and your childhood?

Listening activity 2:
* Listen to the song, fill the gaps in the lyrics.

In the summers of our innocence

We rode our ………………………, hopped the fence

Fishing balls and earthworms in a tin

We were …………………. kites and skipping stones

Playing Indiana Jones

Which scraped our palms and knees and …………………………..skin

We built our tree …………………., we were young

We didn’t care if we got stung

So we kept batting …………….. hives

Just for fun

With our ………………….-talkies in our hand

And calls no-one could understand

It was „……………. for all“, and „all for one“

Do-do-doo do doo, do doo, do doo…

In the summer nights we’d sneak …………………………

Our bottle rockets lit the sky

Our sling shots aimed at lizards, ……………. and toads

We were cowboys, pirates, musketeers

And in our back-……………….. we would smuggle beers

We jumped into the river with no clothes

We were ……………………….. walls in cut-off jeans

And looked at …………………………..magazines

At night wet dreams, then blue bongs in the sun

So with bows and ……………………… in our hand

And calls no-one could understand

It was „one for all“ and „…………… for one”

Do-do-doo….

In the summers of our innocence

When …………………. was small and still made sense

But time flies and I just turned thirty-one

By the time when you turn ……………………

Darkness starts to follow you

We won’t surrender like in this Springsteen’s song

So with our ……………………… in our hands

And calls that no-one understands

It’s still “one for all”, and “all for …………………”

Do-do-doo…

(Milow- cowboys, pirates, musketeers)

* Check the gaps, try to translate or explain the meaning of the lyrics.

Follow-ups:
* Sing along (possible to use video with lyrics showed above)


The original video by HomeRunRecords is here: