noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a love song/story
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a tragic love story
a sad story/song/film
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He had listened patiently to his client’s sad story about her awful life.
bird song (= musical sounds that birds make )
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The forest is full of bird song at all times of the year.
burst into song
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Lydia burst into song .
catchy song
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a catchy song
know a song/tune/poem etc (= be able to sing a song, play a tune, say a poem etc because you have learned it )
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Do you know all the words to ‘As Time Goes By’?
singing...songs
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We had a great time singing some of the old songs .
torch song
whale music/song (= sounds made by whales )
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Scientists believe that whale song is used to communicate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
folk
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Many of her first attempts were little more than workmanlike folk songs .
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He came to the university, and we were supposed to sing a folk song in Tagalog.
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They embodied the sun in stylized forms in their jewelry and praised it in folk songs and myths.
good
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Doyle confirms this: Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way.
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One reason it has faded from memory is that it was eventually overshadowed by a better song created from its chords.
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Many observers feel Gedge has already written his best songs , or the most commercial ones at least.
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My thing is, write good songs .
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He was not a big star at the time and it was just a good song .
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Uriah Heep didn't play any of their good songs .
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I know as good as the next man what is hip but we decided to forget all that and just concentrate on good songs .
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We're not just of this period, we write good songs and there's always a demand for a good song.
great
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Ratt have some chunky riffs but no great songs .
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Someday I want to feel like I have written a great song .
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They are, for the most part, great songs .
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And how can you go wrong with a great song by Johnny Cash in a movie that takes place in a prison?
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Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season, I can't fault it.
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But a hack solo in a great song - it's still a great song.
new
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They're in the middle of a world tour, playing new and traditional songs .
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And these new songs expressed the feelings of a large, appreciative female audience.
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The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone.
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With these rearrangements, new songs emerged from old.
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Often this situation doesn't allow the artist enough time to write good new songs .
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In the past nine days, two new songs have been written, according to lyricist Jim Steinman.
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From outside the Carter camp it could be seen as evidence that the twosome are having trouble finding new songs .
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Most tribute albums feature new performances of songs associated with a band, singer or songwriter.
old
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But dialogue, however problematic, is preferable to the old songs of hate.
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Same old song all day long.
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For the most part, it's the same old song .
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But, in fact, courses and programs that we could call remedial are older than fight songs and cheerleaders.
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The whole crowd later went to a variety show at the Winter Gardens. Old Glasgow songs .
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He says that there's an old song ... keep up the fight ... we won't give in.
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Just a fantasy based around Pamela, based around her old songs .
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He began to play an old song .
pop
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Bird flew high above the simple pop songs upon which they were based, developing new ideas and melodies on the spot.
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The Refreshments started playing their easily digestible pop songs in January 1994.
popular
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The great cultural diversion of the country, and the conflicts which this gave rise to, found expression in popular song .
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I asked him what kind of songs he knew and he said he knew some popular songs.
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One day Modi had made a collage by pasting a verse from a popular song around a painting, in Cubist fashion.
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Neuter nouns ending in o take a. He wrote the lyrics of a popular song .
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Ybreska laughed, suddenly, the words of a popular Western song breaking on his lips.
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As I was standing before the sink,, I heard Edusha singing a recently popular song .
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A woman was singing popular songs , and the holidaymakers were drinking and laughing as they ate their steaks.
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This is the principal reason that the great voices of opera seldom sing popular songs .
siren
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Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song .
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The bottom line is that General Motors heeded the siren song of management Centralism in the mid-sixties.
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They prepared their siren song for the early-evening crowd.
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Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road, beckoning him to pack up and go.
traditional
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They're in the middle of a world tour, playing new and traditional songs .
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Joyce's tale, shot through with references to singers and composers, also features traditional songs .
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The Doonans' speciality is lacing traditional songs with rock arrangements, or applying folk themes to rock.
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It was illegal to speak the language or sing their traditional songs .
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The festivities start the previous night, the hypnotic beat of the drum and the traditional song having a very strong effect.
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Nothing expresses that better than joining together to sing traditional and patriotic songs .
■ NOUN
love
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She began to sing the famous love song .
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Some songs on this album are love songs.
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The remaining tracks are frothy, cliché-ridden love songs .
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Nicole Simpson sent him cookies, letters and tapes filled with love songs , he said.
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There's only so many love songs you can write.
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Would-be lovebirds are unable to hear the love songs sung by other birds.
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But these are competent love songs , carried on the strength of the 23-year-old's powerful and seductive vocals.
theme
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The singer was chuffed when her album title track Proud was chosen as Labour's election theme song .
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I worked on the theme song with Ziggy Marley.
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And you can sing that Morphin Ranger theme song ad nauseum.
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Sometimes the cartoon theme song is better than some of the episodes themselves.
■ VERB
burst
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From time to time somebody would burst into song or laughter, and some people continued to whisper on and off all through the night.
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And with that he clasped both hands gently over his chest and burst into song .
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And indeed, from this lofty site Loch Arkaig itself is a vision to make you burst into song .
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When the choir commenced the first carol, even the most self-conscious among them burst into song .
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She burst into songs between the stories.
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With a smock artfully covering his paunchy frame, Pavarotti, 56, burst into golden-toned song .
hear
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Which should come as no surprise to anyone who has heard his songs .
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If I heard a new song I had to sing it.
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I hear one brief song of the indigo bunting. 3: 07-3: 12 PMIt is overcast.
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Can you find honey in the crack of a tree, Hear the song in the mouth of the shell?
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People want to hear those songs .
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If you hear a good song you tell all your friends about it but radio never breaks anything new.
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I heard the song sung by a thousand voices.....
include
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Yet the Franks have received criticism for including a lot of songs dedicated fans will already own.
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These might include songs , chants, or activities that express allegiance to political leaders or symbols.
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There are different styles of singing in different regions, and we balance the programme to include different songs from different regions.
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Moreover, students were to follow the prescribed curriculum, which included holiday observances, songs , and patriotic exercises.
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Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance.
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Perkins says he included the song as a way of expressing thanks to McCartney.
play
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Loudspeakers play the songs of different cricket species from her left and right.
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Others wrote poems, plays , stories, songs , novels, even a fake autobiography of the Jersey Jumper.
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It took three years to put A1 together, everyone in the band was musical and could play instruments and write songs .
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He shot it because it played a sad song .
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They're playing Christmas songs - I know cos I heard this one at school before.
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As I got older, they still played the song , but the dancers were clearly beginning to fake it.
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They're in the middle of a world tour, playing new and traditional songs .
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I try to listen like a piece of Silly Putty when some one plays me a song .
record
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Ideally, you should record the three strongest songs in your set.
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They scrutinize recorded songs to determine whether regional dialects exist among those of the same species.
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Read in studio A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song .
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Badly recorded , Beatlesque song fragments may make for an interesting aesthetic statement.
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In just one session, Mitosis recorded eight songs .
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They, in turn, wrote and recorded 12 songs that reflect various scenes and characters in the film.
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I still have the tape on which I recorded the songs and music of that evening.
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Only company using Racial Artists in recording high-class song records.
sing
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Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales.
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But mainly I sing love songs .
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After singing the song through twice he then encouraged the audience to join in.
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This is the principal reason that the great voices of opera seldom sing popular songs .
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The voice sings along with the song , then turns into a hum.
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Lou Holtz is an itinerant minstrel, his hand out for a few more coins to sing his song at another stop.
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Bob sings their own song , a private version of Lili Marlene, the anthem of all the desert warriors.
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He sang a little song to entice them, but they never came.
write
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And that's how I write songs .
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Fortunately, Nelson has written enough songs about dissolute living that the alternative crew can feel comfortable singing them.
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Since that, we'd been touring constantly and written about twenty-five songs .
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Assimilation worked, especially for a nationalistic capitalist who could write hit songs .
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I wrote a song about a satellite once but that doesn't mean I am a satellite, does it?
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In September of 1980, I was getting $ 200 a week to write songs .
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If a band don't write their own songs , the manager has to find the right songwriters.
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From that start Leiber and Stoller went on from 1951 to 1956 to write songs rarely heard by whites.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beer/song/food etc fest
a snatch of conversation/music/song etc
break into a smile/a song/applause etc
siren voices/song/call
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Daniel Boone heard it: the siren song of the open road, beckoning him to pack up and go.
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Forty Niners president Carmen Policy called the lure of free agency a siren song.
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Mr. Sheerman Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her?
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The bottom line is that General Motors heeded the siren song of management Centralism in the mid-sixties.
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Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song, she picked it up.
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They prepared their siren song for the early-evening crowd.
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This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region.
theme music/song/tune
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Gowie Corby, Gowie Corby, the theme tune for all that's wrong in this school.
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I know she liked the theme music.
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I worked on the theme song with Ziggy Marley.
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Sometimes the cartoon theme song is better than some of the episodes themselves.
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Tampons that play the Hollyoaks theme tune when inserted?
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The theme music for the show starts up.
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The theme music starts and I immediately find something more interesting to do.
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The theme tune from Titanic was played at their wedding.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a recording of the swallow's song
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In the evenings we'd sit around the campfire and sing songs.
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That's a pretty song - where did you learn it?
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The song "Yesterday" is one of the most often recorded songs in the world.
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The story of America's independence has been celebrated in song .
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The students played guitars and sang folk songs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds are bred by crossing champions, to try to guarantee a high quality of song .
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Linda brought him a book of easy songs.
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Six monologues and a comic song to finish with had the audience roaring with laughter.
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They traded songs and combined voices into old-time Delmore Brothers harmonies.
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To please Sinterklaas the children sing special songs and lay down carrots and other food for his horse.
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Tom turned his eyes from the paper and started singing the song from Don Giovanni that is always called the Champagne Aria.