s1='''Hold on to love that is what I do now that I've found you And from above everything's stinking they're not around you And in the night I could be helpless I could be lonely sleeping without you And in the day everything's complex There's nothing simple when I'm not around you But I miss you when you're gone that is what I do And it's going to carry on that is what I do Hold on to my hands I feel I'm sinking sinking without you And to my mind everything's stinking stinking without you ''' s1=s1.lower().replace("'s"," ").replace("i'm"," ").replace("and"," ").replace("to"," ").replace(" is"," ").replace("you"," ").replace("that"," ").replace(','," ").replace(" on"," ").replace("i "," ") print(s1) lyricsWordList=s1.split(); lyricsWordSet=set(lyricsWordList) lyricsDict={} for word in lyricsWordSet: lyricsDict[word]=lyricsWordList.count(word) lyricsWordListSort=sorted(lyricsDict.items(),key=lambda d:d[1],reverse=True) for i in range(10): if i>len(lyricsWordListSort): break print(lyricsWordListSort[i])