Attaching the background music file to the clips

Hello! I'm not sure if I can do this with iMovie but I hope so!
I have made a video that consists of a large number of short clips and I have set it to music. What I want to do now is rearrange those clips but keep the music that is playing with each clip. So when the new video gets played the music will be all shuffled up.
For an example: let's say I have four clips in my movie and they are, in order, A, B, C and D. The music playing the background is "I'm a little teapot". During clip A the lyric "I'm a little teapot" plays. During clip B "short and stout" plays and during clip C "here is my handle" plays and in clip D "here is my spout". What I want to do is reorder those four clips so the movie plays them as B, D, C and A and keeps the music linked to each clip. So, when watching the new video, you hear "short and stout here is my spout here is my handle i'm a little teapot."
Is that possible? Can you link the background music to the individual clips in this way? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

There are a couple of ways to do this.
1) In iMovie, drag the music clip from the media browser into the project and drop it on the first clip.
Adjust the rear handle so it only plays during the first clip. Then drag in the same music clip from the media browser to the second clip. Drag the front handle to the right so that it starts playing where the other one left off. Drag the back handle to the left until it only covers one clip. Repeat until done.
2) If you know the length of your clips, use Garageband to create a series of short audio clips that are the exact length you need for each clip. Then drag and drop on the iMovie clips.

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