Friday Sessions #10: ‘Look around, see what you do’ – ‘Mr. Blue Sky’, Pomplamoose /Electric Light Orchestra

Friday Sessions are all about focusing on key words or expressions that you can listen to, learn and repeat. You can try to understand all the lyrics to a track, or you can simply learn one new word, and with the power of music that word will probably stick in your memory forever. How great is that? 

Rhyming is a great way to make playful connections when you’re listening, it can even help to clarify the pronunciation of words.  The lyrics to Mr Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra (like many famous tracks,) contain many rhyming words that you probably know; ……..

Play / Day / Hey
Sky / Why
City / Pity
Long / Wrong
Face / Race
You / Do 
Over / Shoulder

…….and if you don’t, you do now. 

Listening to different versions of the same track can also help you to focus on different words. So, this week we have one version by Pomplamoose, a band well know for great covers, and of course the original by Electric Light Orchestra. (They don’t have graphics in music videos like this anymore…)

Happy New Year everyone. I hope that 2022 is light and bright, and you have plenty of time to ‘look around’ and see the Blue Sky!

Lyrics:

(Morning, today’s forecast calls for blue skies)

Sun is shinin’ in the sky
There ain’t a cloud in sight
It’s stopped rainin’ everybody’s in the play
And don’t you know
It’s a beautiful new day, hey

Runnin’ down the avenue
See how the sun shines brightly in the city
On the streets where once was pity
Mr. Blue Sky is living here today, hey

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?

Hey you with the pretty face
Welcome to the human race
A celebration, Mr. Blue Sky’s up there waitin’
And today is the day we’ve waited for Oh Mr. Blue Sky please tell us why You had to hide away for so long (so long) Where did we go wrong?

Hey there Mr. Blue
We’re so pleased to be with you
Look around, see what you do
Everybody smiles at you

Hey there Mr. Blue
We’re so pleased to be with you
Look around, see what you do
Everybody smiles at you

(Mr. Blue Sky, Mr. Blue Sky)
(Mr. Blue Sky)
Mr. Blue, you did it right
But soon comes Mr. Night creepin’ over
Now his hand is on your shoulder
Never mind, I’ll remember you this I’ll remember you this way

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?

Hey there Mr. Blue (sky)
We’re so pleased to be with you (sky)
Look around see what you do (blue)
Everybody smiles at you

(Please turn me over)

Pomplamoose /Mr Blue Sky