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Lyrics & Translation

[English]

hey everybody Happy Thanksgiving no no

no no no no what are we keeping

Thanksgiving a secret this year no we

are playing this game I learned at work

you have to name all the states in 6

minutes what that's like insanely easy

no it's a lot harder than it sounds you

always forget at least one or in some

cases

14 it's a stupid game and I wasn't

playing against other people so

technically I didn't lose what you

forgot 14 nobody cares about the

dtas oh okay time's up all right I got

48 oh it's not bad beeps oh I got tired

of naming States so I decided to list

the types of

celery and I have one regular

celery okay so Rachel's got 48 and

Phoebe has the lead

in vegetables Joey say hello to the new

champ of Chandler's dumb States game

what how many you got

56 done with time a two spare oo this

may be a new world's record you know I

hate to lecture you guys but it's kind

of disgraceful that a group of

well-educated adults and

Joey can't name all the states you ever

see a map or one of those round colorful

things called a

globe uh mag

you got 46 States what that's impossible

46 well who's well educated now Mr I

forgot 10 states Okay Ross time is up no

just give me another minute look Ross if

you don't know them by now you will

never know them okay that is the beauty

of this game it makes you want to kill

yourself this this is crazy I can do

this all right uh I bet I can get all 50

uh before dinner okay but if you can't

no dinner you're on all right don't look

at my list Ross cuz there's a lot on

there that you don't

have how can I not get this I'm a

college professor I got 1450 on my SATs

1250 damn I forgot you were

here you need some help from

you yes please

first of all

Utah dude you can't just make stuff

up I hate

America when I finish this game I swear

I am

moving okay maybe this is so hard

because there aren't 50

states let me tell you something I have

49 states and there are no

more I I think I should be able to eat

something it's up to

you tell

W

Delaware all right I want my turkey

now you got

it you got Nevada

twice I know

yeah chandlering hi honey we're all here

we just want to wish you a Merry

Christmas Merry Christmas Merry

Christmas a merry Christmas I miss you

guys is it horrible is everybody working

really hard uh well no it's just uh me

and

Wendy Wendy that sounds like a girl's

name it is did I not tell you about her

mhm about the time you told me about New

Year's Eve where is everybody else I

sent them home oh you are such a good

boss is she pretty

uh uh answer faster answer faster I

don't know answer better answer

better I don't think of her that way you

know I mean she's a uh she's a colleague

what does she do there oh she's regional

vice president she's just below me she

did

what below

me oh wait is Wendy the runner up Miss

Oklahoma what

what well she she didn't

win all right well maybe I should let

you and the second prettiest girl in

Oklahoma get back to work well second

prettiest that year I mean of all the

girls in Oklahoma she's probably oh

Chandler stop

talking honey there's really nothing to

worry about okay I'm serious okay Merry

Christmas Merry Christmas Merry

Christmas you guys

the wife says hi ah fun conversation oh

well she's just got this weird idea that

uh you know just because you and I alone

that something's going to happen H

really H that be so

terrible this is probably the wrong

thing to be worrying about but

you're getting Ham on my only

tie great funny story I bumped into

Joanna on the street

yesterday my boss Joanna wow that must

have been awkward well no actually she

asked me if I wanted to get a

drink you uh didn't say yes to that did

you no no hello

Rachel well not at first

what is she doing

here I don't understand last time you

went out with her you said she was a big

dull dud well I think I judged her too

quickly and this time we were able to

take the relationship to the next

level well last time I almost got fired

you must end it you must end it now oh

come on it's not like this is an

everyday occurrence for me I mean

usually I'm pretty much just in there by

myself

oh God look at him he's so cute just

want to go over there grab him and kiss

him how could I kiss him without letting

him know that I like him oh hey I know

how you can get him take off your

bra what do was a scene in foot loose

Flash Dance yeah yeah yeah without that

uh plumber girl she was a

welder were you like in the movie

or anyway she takes off her bra under

the shirt and pulls it out the sleeve

very sexy and

classy or if you want to kiss him um you

could use mistletoe oh it's not

Christmas or spin the bottle and he's

not

11 thank you so much for this it was

really so thoughtful of you what you're

leaving yes we have something we have to

get to yeah I think I'm going to take

off too actually no you guys you can't

leave yet you have to stay we we've got

the whole big thing

planned what big thing so spin the

bottle works like this I spin the bottle

LS on Gunther so I would have to kiss

Gunther all

right who wants to go first okay

[Applause]

okay welcome to America

[Applause]

[Music]

right two in a row you got to use your

tongues

[Laughter]

now what are the odds what are the

odds okay that that's enough you

know let's let someone else

play if you didn't want to play then

why'd you come to the

party okay my

turn look at that oh my

God oh my God the baby just kicked it's

okay it's okay kick once it'll kick

again all right well everybody just

remember where they were sitting

the

...

hey

Ur what are you doing here I've been

trying to call

you listen um oh no no no don't say

listen I know that listen I've said that

listen

I'm

sorry I don't get it what happened what

about everything you set under the

bridge yeah

um you know you should just forget about

what I said under the bridge I was

talking crazy that night I'm so

drunk you don't drink that's right I

don't but I was I was drunk on

you but okay yeah so it's not going to

work why is it because I'm friends with

Phoebe if it was would you stop hanging

out with

her no no I I couldn't do that um then

yeah it's cuz of

Phoebe so you know it's either her or

me then uh then I'm

sorry you know

but you're going to be really really

hard to get over I

know I don't know whether it's just cuz

we're breaking up or what but you have

never looked so

beautiful really

[Music]

feves yeah

[Music]

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪvɪŋ/ B1	noun - A national holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the US and Canada.
states /steɪts/ A2	noun - The constituent political entities of a federation.
insanely /ɪnˈseɪnli/ B1	adverb - To a very great degree; extremely.
technically /ˈtek.nɪ.kli/ B2	adverb - According to the strict definition of a word or concept.
forgot /fərˈɡɑːt/ A2	verb - To be unable to remember information.
celery /ˈseləri/ A2	noun - A vegetable with long, crisp, pale green stalks.
vegetables /ˈvedʒ.tə.bl̩z/ A1	noun - Plants or parts of plants used as food.
champ /tʃæmp/ A2	noun - A person who has defeated all opponents in a competition.
record /ˈrek.ərd/ B1	noun - A thing documenting facts.
disgraceful /dɪsˈɡreɪsfəl/ B2	adjective - Deserving or causing disgrace.
educated /ˈedʒ.jʊ.keɪ.tɪd/ B1	adjective - Having received an education.
globe /ɡloʊb/ A2	noun - A spherical model of the Earth.
beauty /ˈbjuːti/ A2	noun - A combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses.
professor /prəˈfesər/ B1	noun - A teacher of the highest rank at a college or university.
kill /kɪl/ A2	verb - To cause the death of.
lecture /ˈlek.tʃər/ B1	verb - To give a formal talk on a subject.
boss /bɑːs/ A2	noun - A person in charge of a worker or organization.
colleague /ˈkɑː.liːɡ/ B1	noun - A person with whom one works in a profession or business.

Key Grammar Structures

• what are we keeping Thanksgiving a secret this year

  ➔ Present continuous tense

  ➔ The phrase "are keeping" highlights the present continuous tense, used to describe an action happening now or around now.

• you have to name all the states in 6 minutes

  ➔ Modal verb (have to)

  ➔ "Have to" is a modal verb used to express necessity or obligation.

• it's a lot harder than it sounds

  ➔ Comparative adjective

  ➔ "Harder" is the comparative form of the adjective "hard," used to compare two things.

• I wasn't playing against other people

  ➔ Past continuous tense

  ➔ The phrase "wasn't playing" is in the past continuous tense, used to describe an ongoing action in the past.

• if you don't know them by now, you will never know them

  ➔ Conditional sentence (Type 1)

  ➔ This is a Type 1 conditional sentence, used to talk about a possible situation and its probable result.

• I think I should be able to eat something

  ➔ Modal verb (should)

  ➔ "Should" is used to express advice or recommendation.

• she's just below me

  ➔ Present simple tense with 'be'

  ➔ The phrase "she's just below me" uses the present simple tense with 'be' to describe a permanent or semi-permanent state.

• I don't think of her that way

  ➔ Present simple with 'think'

  ➔ The phrase "I don't think" uses the present simple tense to express a habitual or general thought.

• you know it's either her or me

  ➔ Emphatic structure

  ➔ The phrase "either her or me" is an emphatic structure used to highlight a choice between two options.