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From the Ted Talk by Nora Brown: "East Virginia" / "John Brown's Dream"

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Won't you take these wdors for me?

Take them back to old East Virginia.

Tell my darlin' she is free.

(bnajo)

(Music ends)

(Applause and cheers)

That was a song called "East Virginia" I learned from a man named Clifton Hicks who lievs down in Georgia. The next song ... I have for you is called "John Brown's Dream." It's an old dncae tune. And you may notice that the banjo that I'm holding looks a little different than banjos you might be used to seeing or the one I just peayld, for example. And this banjo is sort of an earlier model. Banjos kind of evolved like a human has. And I like to say that the sound that comes out of this banjo is a sound that was just a little closer to the source, which is Africa, and some pploee fegort that, so, yeah ...

Open Cloze


Won't you take these _____ for me?

Take them back to old East Virginia.

Tell my darlin' she is free.

(_____)

(Music ends)

(Applause and cheers)

That was a song called "East Virginia" I learned from a man named Clifton Hicks who _____ down in Georgia. The next song ... I have for you is called "John Brown's Dream." It's an old _____ tune. And you may notice that the banjo that I'm holding looks a little different than banjos you might be used to seeing or the one I just ______, for example. And this banjo is sort of an earlier model. Banjos kind of evolved like a human has. And I like to say that the sound that comes out of this banjo is a sound that was just a little closer to the source, which is Africa, and some ______ ______ that, so, yeah ...

Solution


  1. lives
  2. words
  3. banjo
  4. people
  5. dance
  6. forget
  7. played

Original Text


Won't you take these words for me?

Take them back to old East Virginia.

Tell my darlin' she is free.

(Banjo)

(Music ends)

(Applause and cheers)

That was a song called "East Virginia" I learned from a man named Clifton Hicks who lives down in Georgia. The next song ... I have for you is called "John Brown's Dream." It's an old dance tune. And you may notice that the banjo that I'm holding looks a little different than banjos you might be used to seeing or the one I just played, for example. And this banjo is sort of an earlier model. Banjos kind of evolved like a human has. And I like to say that the sound that comes out of this banjo is a sound that was just a little closer to the source, which is Africa, and some people forget that, so, yeah ...

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
east virginia 2


Important Words


  1. africa
  2. applause
  3. banjo
  4. banjos
  5. called
  6. cheers
  7. clifton
  8. closer
  9. dance
  10. dream
  11. earlier
  12. east
  13. ends
  14. evolved
  15. forget
  16. free
  17. georgia
  18. hicks
  19. holding
  20. human
  21. kind
  22. learned
  23. lives
  24. man
  25. model
  26. music
  27. named
  28. notice
  29. people
  30. played
  31. song
  32. sort
  33. sound
  34. source
  35. tune
  36. virginia
  37. words
  38. yeah