Learning a Song in Sign Language, Is It Word for Word?

no, you cant do it word for word.
some little words are left out and others are changed around.

for example in the song it says:
“you were so scared”

it would change to
“scared you were”
when you sign it.

so you would use the sign for “scared” then “you” and then “were”

you would leave out “so”
or could change it to the sign for “very”

hope this is helpful.
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