If it hadn't been for love - Adele

With this song I used it to talk about conditionals, I asked the students to tell me how many second conditionals there were and then looked at the mixed conditional. "I wouldn't be wishing I was free
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love"

NB you need to tell students that woulda = would have!

If it hadn’t been for love - Adele

Never would have hitch hiked to Birmingham
If it hadn't been for love
Never woulda caught the train to Louisiana
If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda run through the blindin' rain

If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Without one dollar to my name

Woulda been gone like a wayward wind

If it hadn't been for love

If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda seen the trouble that I'm in

Nobody knows it better than me
I wouldn't be wishing I was free
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Lord have mercy on my soul

At least I know he's lying still

Four cold walls without patrol

Four cold walls against my will

If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda took a mind to track him down

Never woulda gone to that side of town

If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda loaded up a forty four
Put myself behind a jail house door
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Four cold walls against my will

At least I know he's lying still

Lord have mercy on my soul

Four cold walls without patrol

Never woulda hitch hiked to Birmingham
If it hadn't been for love
Never woulda caught the train to Louisian'
If it hadn't been for love

Never woulda loaded up a forty four
Put myself behind a jail house door
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love
If it hadn't been, if it hadn't been for love

Worksheet here