Songs to Learn English

​Right-click or hold the title of any song, to download a recording in English, with simple words, to help you learn. Use the translate button to understand the words in your language. There are more songs with words on YouTube.

​Most of these are very well known, and native speakers will be pleased and impressed when you know them.

Beginner English Songs

• Happy Birthday - 4 words
• Are You Sleeping? Brother John - 11 words
• Alphabet - 13
• 0-2016 - 30
• Diversify and Balance Your Life - 10
• Listen to the Drum - 12
• Talk a Lot - 14
• Give Peace a Chance - 12
• We Shall Overcome - 21
• Edelweiss - 25
• Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here - 11
• The More We Get Together - 30
• For He's a Jolly Good Fellow - 10
• The Bear Went over the Mountain - 18
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm - 25
• Swear Thou the Jury - 37
• Opposites - 60

Intermediate English Songs

Nancy Stewart, 13 - 68 words

• Bluebird through My Window
• Dancing Rainbow Colors
• ​An Owl Sat Alone
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Stephen Foster, 22 - 42 words

• Hard Times Come Again No More
• ​Old Folks at Home, or Swanee River

Patti Page, 47 - 88 words

• Moon River Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Jamaica Farewell

Sting, 69 - 156 words

• Dienda
• Moon over Bourbon Street
• Fields of Gold
• A Thousand Years and A Perfect Love Gone Wrong ​

Elvis Presley, 47 - 69 words

• Lonely Man
• Indescribably Blue
• Love Me Tender
• Return To Sender

Simon and Garfunkel, 45 - 84 words

• El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine
• Old Friends
• I Am A Rock

Tim Murphey, 9 - 61 words

• Smiling Brings You Happiness
• 12 Ways to Bliss

Songs from Movies and Musical Theater, 45-114 words

• Born Free
• Singing in the Rain
• Summertime ​Porgy and Bess
• Goldfinger
• Somewhere over the Rainbow Wizard of Oz
• The Way We Were
• As Time Goes By  Casablanca
• The Sound of Music
• Ol' Man River ​Showboat
• High Noon
• Impossible Dream ​Man of la Mancha
• Staying Alive Saturday Night Fever
• I Just Called To Say I Love You ​Woman in Red
• I Could Have Danced All Night ​My Fair Lady

Gilbert and Sullivan, 87-105 words

• ​​Oh, Better Far to Live and Die, or Pirate King
• When a Merry Maiden Marries
• A Magnet Hung in a Hardware Shop
• Captain of the Pinafore

Others, 39 - 101 words

• Take Me Out to the Ballgame
• Autumn Leaves
• Fly Me to the Moon
• I Need You Now
• There but for Fortune
• Yesterday
• A Winter's Tale
• Country Roads
• You Are My Sunshine
• Clementine

Another collection of songs has words and videos. It does not show the number of words to learn in each song.