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She asked me, "Son, when I grow old 00:09

Will you buy me a house of gold? 00:13

And when your father turns to stone 00:18

Will you take care of me?" 00:22

She asked me, "Son, when I grow old 00:26

Will you buy me a house of gold? 00:30

And when your father turns to stone 00:34

Will you take care of me?" 00:38

I will make you queen of everything you see 00:43

I'll put you on the map, I'll cure you of disease 00:52

Let's say we up and left this town 00:59

And turned our future upside down 01:04

We'll make pretend that you and me 01:07

Lived ever after happily 01:12

She asked me, "Son, when I grow old 01:18

Will you buy me a house of gold? 01:22

And when your father turns to stone 01:26

Will you take care of me?" 01:30

I will make you queen of everything you see 01:35

I'll put you on the map, I'll cure you of disease 01:44

And since we know that dreams are dead 01:51

And life turns plans up on their head 01:56

I will plan to be a bum 02:00

So I just might become someone 02:04

She asked me, "Son, when I grow old 02:09

Will you buy me a house of gold? 02:14

And when your father turns to stone 02:18

Will you take care of me?" 02:23

I will make you queen of everything you see 02:27

I'll put you on the map, I'll cure you of disease 02:37

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House of Gold – English Lyrics

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[English]

She asked me, "Son, when I grow old

Will you buy me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone

Will you take care of me?"

She asked me, "Son, when I grow old

Will you buy me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone

Will you take care of me?"

I will make you queen of everything you see

I'll put you on the map, I'll cure you of disease

Let's say we up and left this town

And turned our future upside down

We'll make pretend that you and me

Lived ever after happily

She asked me, "Son, when I grow old

Will you buy me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone

Will you take care of me?"

I will make you queen of everything you see

I'll put you on the map, I'll cure you of disease

And since we know that dreams are dead

And life turns plans up on their head

I will plan to be a bum

So I just might become someone

She asked me, "Son, when I grow old

Will you buy me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone

Will you take care of me?"

I will make you queen of everything you see

I'll put you on the map, I'll cure you of disease

...

Key Vocabulary

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Vocabulary	Meanings
house /haʊs/ A2	noun - a building for people to live in
gold /ɡoʊld/ A2	noun - a yellow precious metal
father /ˈfɑːðər/ A2	noun - a male parent
stone /stoʊn/ A2	noun - a hard, solid mineral material
care /kɛər/ A2	verb - to feel concern or interest noun - the process of caring for someone
queen /kwiːn/ B1	noun - a female monarch
map /mæp/ A2	noun - a visual representation of an area
disease /dɪˈziːz/ B2	noun - a disorder of structure or function
dream /driːm/ B1	noun - a series of thoughts or images during sleep verb - to experience visions during sleep
life /laɪf/ B1	noun - the existence of living beings
plans /plænz/ B2	noun - a detailed proposal for achieving something
future /ˈfjutʃər/ B1	noun - the time yet to come
someone /ˈsʌmˌwʌn/ A2	pronoun - an unspecified person

Vocabulary

Meanings

house

/haʊs/

noun
- a building for people to live in

gold

/ɡoʊld/

noun
- a yellow precious metal

father

/ˈfɑːðər/

noun
- a male parent

stone

/stoʊn/

noun
- a hard, solid mineral material

care

/kɛər/

verb
- to feel concern or interest

noun
- the process of caring for someone

queen

/kwiːn/

noun
- a female monarch

map

/mæp/

noun
- a visual representation of an area

disease

/dɪˈziːz/

noun
- a disorder of structure or function

dream

/driːm/

noun
- a series of thoughts or images during sleep

verb
- to experience visions during sleep

life

/laɪf/

noun
- the existence of living beings

plans

/plænz/

noun
- a detailed proposal for achieving something

future

/ˈfjutʃər/

noun
- the time yet to come

someone

/ˈsʌmˌwʌn/

pronoun
- an unspecified person

Key Grammar Structures

Will you buy me a house of gold?

➔ Future Simple Tense (Will + base verb)

➔ Uses "will" to express a future intention or promise.
She asked me, "Son, when I grow old"

➔ Reported Speech (Past Simple of 'ask')

➔ Uses reported speech to convey what someone asked in the past.
And when your father turns to stone

➔ Present Simple Tense in a Subordinate Clause

➔ The present simple tense is used here to express a general or hypothetical situation in a subordinate clause.
I'll put you on the map

➔ Future Simple Tense (Will + base verb)

➔ Reiterates the use of "will" to indicate a future action or intention.
And since we know that dreams are dead

➔ Conjunction "since" + Present Simple in subordinate clause

➔ Uses "since" to indicate a reason or cause, with the clause expressing a fact in the present tense.
I will plan to be a bum

➔ Future Simple Tense (Will + base verb)

➔ Expresses an intention or plan for the future using "will".