LISTENING

Give a little bit (Roger HodgsonSupertramp )

Ooh yeah
Allright
Here we ____________________
De de Oh oh
Na na Hey hey
Give a little bit
Give a little bit of _______________to me
I'll give a _________________________
I'll give a little bit of my love to you
There's so much that we _______to_____
So____ a smile and show _____________
(Allright)
I'll give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of ____________for you
So give a little bit
Give a little bit of _______________to me
See the man with the lonely eyes
Oh, take his hand, ____________surprised
(Oh take it)
Come along
Yea yea yea yea
Yea yea yea yea yea yea yea
Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
Give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my life for you
_________the time that we need to share
So find yourself, we're on our way back
home
Going home
Don't you need, don't you need
________________at home?
Oh yeah, we gotta see
Ooh yeah, gotta get a ________________
Ooh, yeah, come along too
Oh come along too
Come-a come-a come-a come along
Ooh, yeah come along too
Say _________ a look, come ________too
Come along right
Come along way
Sing it tonight
Ooh ooh

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take
to feel
need
your time
Now's

WORD BANK
along
share
you'll be
feelin'
send

your love
you care
go again
my life
little bit

Roger Hodgson
19501969: Early years

odgson was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, in 1950 and grew

up in Oxford. He is the son of Charles Hodgson and Jill Hodgson (ne

Pomfret,
died
in
June
2009).
He
attended Woodcote
House near Windlesham, Surrey, where he was the first boy to learn electric
guitar, and Stowe School near Buckingham, Buckinghamshire. His first guitar was
a parting gift from his father at age 12 when his parents divorced. He took it to
boarding school with him, where his teacher taught him three chords. He began
composing his own music and lyrics and within a year gave his first concert at
school with nine original songs. Hodgson's first band at school consisted of him
on guitar and his friend Roy Hovey playing snare drums. They were dubbed the
"H-bombs" because of their last names.
At age 19, Roger Hodgson made his first appearance in a recording studio as
guitarist for People Like Us, a band he joined shortly after graduating from boarding school. The group recorded a single, "Duck Pond" b/w
"Send Me No Flowers", which was never released.
After People Like Us disbanded, Hodgson auditioned for Island Records, with Traffic's road manager providing him a foot in the door with the
label. Island set him up in a recording studio as vocalist for the one-off "flower power" pop band Argosy, which also included Reginald
Dwight (later known as Elton John), Caleb Quaye and Nigel Olsson. Their sole single, "Mr. Boyd" b/w "Imagine", consisted of two pieces of
orchestrated pop (both penned by Hodgson) and was issued in 1969 on the DJM (U.K.) and Congress (U.S.) record labels. It sold poorly and
consequently has become rare and sought after. "Mr. Boyd" was covered in 1997 by Jake Shillingford and his band My Life Story on their
album "The Golden Mile".

19691983: Supertramp
After the break-up of Argosy, Hodgson, responding to an advert placed in Melody Maker by Rick Davies, auditioned for the guitarist spot in
the progressive rock band Supertramp. Hodgson was offered the job, but when Richard Palmer arrived the next day to audition for the same
spot, Hodgson agreed to learn how to play bass instead.
The songs on Supertramp's self-titled first album, released in 1970, were composed by Roger Hodgson, Rick Davies, and Richard Palmer;
however, since both Hodgson and Davies were unwilling to write lyrics, Palmer wrote all the album's lyrics. Palmer left shortly after the
album's recording, allowing Hodgson to switch back to guitar, but leaving him and Davies no choice but to serve as the band's lyricists.
Paralleling fellow British prog rockers Genesis and their search for a new lead vocalist, Supertramp auditioned 93 guitarists before turning
the role over to Hodgson. The hugely successful Crime of the Century was released in 1974. Crisis? What Crisis?, released in 1975, was
followed by Even in the Quietest Moments in 1977. In 1979, they released their most successful album,Breakfast in America. This album has
sold over 20 million copies to date. The live album, Paris, was released in 1980. Famous Last Words, released in 1982, included
Hodgson's first solo recording, "Know Who You Are".
From 1974 through 1983, all songs recorded by Supertramp were legally credited with a shared writing credit of Davies/Hodgson. Roger
Hodgson was the writer of hits such as "Give a Little Bit", "Breakfast in America", "It's Raining Again", "Take the Long Way Home" and
"Fool's Overture". Hodgson wrote "Breakfast in America", "The Logical Song", and some
of "Fool's Overture" at home with a harmoniumhe had bought from a neighbour when he
was 17 years old (this instrument is used in the background of "Breakfast in America",
and prominently appears on "Two of Us" and his solo track "The Garden").
In 1981 Hodgson moved his family from Los Angeles to Northern California, where he
built a home studio and began contemplating solo recordings. The rest of Supertramp
remained in Los Angeles, and the geographic separation created a rift between them and
Hodgson; there was little to no feuding, but the group harmony was lost. Hodgson felt
increasingly constrained in the group context, and during the tour for Famous Last
Words he made the final decision to leave Supertramp. He has stated that there were
not any real problems in his relationship with Davies, as was speculated.