The background of the study in this research is the students still has difficulties in remembering new vocabulary and confused of understand the vocabulary, even the teacher already done some technique such us lectures, giving assignment, discussions, and drilling method. The objective of this research is to found out the effectiveness of popular English songs to teach vocabulary of verb and to identify the improvement of using songs in teaching vocabulary of verb. The research was an experimental research. Conducted in two classes; the experimental group (VIII D) and control group (VIII C) as sample. The VIII D was taught by using song lyrics, while the VIII C was taught without song lyrics. The instruments used to collect the data were: documentation and test. The documentation was used to get the data of students’ name list that become respondents, lesson plan, etc. Test was used to know students’ competence before and after the experiment. There are two kinds of test. They are pre-test and post test. After the data had been collected by using test, it was found that the pre- test average of the experimental group was 49.91 and control group was 50.91. While, the post-test average of the experimental group was 85.86 and control group were 80.06. The obtained t-test was 3.721, whereas the t-table was 2.00 for a = 5%. The t-test score was higher than the t-table (3.721 > 2.00). It was meant that Ha was accepted while Ho was rejected. Since t-test score was higher than the t-table, Song Lyrics were effective media in improving students’ vocabulary of verb at the Second Grade of SMP N 1 Kangkung in the academic year 2016/2017. Finally the writer suggests the teachers to use song lyrics as one of media in the teaching vocabulary of verb.