Sentence examples for update lyrics from inspiring English sources

"Some are saints and some are jerks," Young sings, cataloguing his subjects more specifically as he goes — "alcoholic people," "patch-of-ground people," and even, in a wonderfully perverse refusal to update lyrics, "Lee Iacocca people".

On Thursday night some songs, like "Busted," outfitted with funny, updated lyrics that refer to things like the QVC channel, were played for comedy.

Naturally Ms. Ono ended the concert with "Give Peace a Chance," the 1969 song that introduced the Plastic Ono Band, adding updated lyrics, flashing V signs and leading a singalong.

The updated lyrics were "excellent" and "in keeping with the standard of the first time", he added.

Ryan Harvey, also part of Riot-Folk, remade "Cops Of The World" with updated lyrics.

The re-release contains updated lyrics reflecting changes in the artist's mind.

With updated lyrics to traditional African-American Gospel music that stressed emancipation and resistance, song energized the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s.

The new version features updated lyrics and music, such as a rap segment pertaining to Haiti, described as a "Greek chorus extension", which was written by will.i.am.am

With the exception of one updated lyric — "but not so little boys" now goes "but not so girls and boys" — the text is a verbatim transcription of the original, with one or two verses appearing per spread.

"The flag is coming down today," they sang in an updated lyric to the tune of "We Shall Overcome," on a sunny anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Young people who had never attended a protest strode next to an older generation that knew the drill, waving signs, stomping feet and mock-grimacing at the object of their derision on the dome.

In that time she's dabbled in acting, made more music and taken the time to humorously update the lyrics to single Ironic, on James Corden's late-night talk show.