worst rhyme in a song?

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  1. Even as a kid I was like: :doh:
     
  2. Sneaky Pete

    Sneaky Pete Flat the 5 and That’s No Jive

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    NYC USA
    From Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, this lyric is so bad, that it is actually good. It has a kind of diabolical genius to it. :)

    And the Hudson River
    Makes you start to quiver
    Like the latest flivver
    That's simply drippin' with chrome
    It's very nice to go trav'ling
    But it's oh so nice to come home

    Read more: Frank Sinatra - It's Nice To Go Trav'ling Lyrics | MetroLyrics
     
  3. It's just funny the way your avatar is looking at those bad lyrics. This is not a thread for Woody. :D
     
  4. timlamp1

    timlamp1 Forum Resident

    Listen to the single mix & you won't cringe,the head part is edited out
     
  5. timlamp1

    timlamp1 Forum Resident

    Some would agree,Violent Femmes Add it Up for "words all fail the magic prize,nothing I can say when i'm in your thighs"
     
  6. lschwart

    lschwart Senior Member

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    Richmond, VA
    Sure.

    And I agree that it's funny, as slanted rhymes often are (or are meant to be). And it's a deliberately ordinary thing after the figurative abstraction of "sign language."

    L.
     
  7. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

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    New Mexico USA
    Possibly my favorite couplet from a country song.
     
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  8. RichC

    RichC Forum Resident

    Location:
    Charlotte, NC
    Can't believe it took 9 pages to find that one. If "Take The Money And Run" didn't exist, this would be an easy #1.

    Fun fact: My old band used to cover this and it brought the house down. I started introducing the second verse as "the worst lyrics in history" and then shout-speaking them so everyone could revel in the badness. :)
     
  9. Lightworker

    Lightworker Forum Resident

    Location:
    Deep Texas
    "The stars in your eyes are like the stars above Laredo
    like meat and potatoes to me..."
    -Bonnie Raitt
     
  10. lschwart

    lschwart Senior Member

    Location:
    Richmond, VA
    Another one I kinda like.

    L.
     
  11. Captain Coconut

    Captain Coconut Active Member

    This gets my vote too. I love the song but that forced "rhyme" annoys me every time I hear it.
     
  12. lschwart

    lschwart Senior Member

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    Richmond, VA
    That line's all kinds of awkward.

    L.
     
  13. tron1974

    tron1974 Senior Member

    Yes - Love Will Find A Way

    Here is my heart
    Waiting for you
    Here is my soul
    I eat at chez nous
     
  14. Roger Meadows

    Roger Meadows Active Member

    Train's "Drop's Of Jupiter" has this golden nugget. "Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken? Your best friend always sticking up for you..."
     
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  15. lschwart

    lschwart Senior Member

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    Richmond, VA
    That lyric is sheer nonsense, but it's not a bad rhyme really. Just rhyme with no reason....

    L.
     
  16. rwil

    rwil Well-Known Member

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    Fayetteville, AR
    "His mind's on maximum overload" scans awkwardly because of the dactyllic substitution in the fourth foot.
    I'll just show myself out.
     
  17. lschwart

    lschwart Senior Member

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    Not really, although you might call it an anapestic substitution in the 3rd foot if it were a line of otherwise dominantly iambic verse (there's some debate about whether or not that's really the most accurate way to describe irregularities like that). But theses lines aren't really metered in feet, although the way they're set to the music makes them sound a little like they might be. They're roughly in a 3 or 4 beat accentual meter, with stressed (or stressable) syllables designed to fall on musical downbeats. The line is awkward because there are too many syllables in "maximum" to cram in between its first stressed syllable and the next place where the stress on a word can coincide with a downbeat (the first syllable of "overload"). As I said, in an otherwise iambic poem that might scan like an extra unstressed syllable stuck into the 3rd foot, but here it's just an accentual line written in a way that scans awkwardly against the music.

    That's at least my insufferably pedantic take on it.

    L.
     
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  18. tkl7

    tkl7 Agent Provocateur

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    Some of you people on here are right weirdos.
     
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  19. RoyalScam

    RoyalScam Luckless Pedestrian

    My vote: Paula Abdul's "Straight Up"

    "Are you more than hot for me / or am I a page in your history / book..."
     
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  20. The Panda

    The Panda Forum Mutant

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    Marple, PA, USA
    this one
     
  21. bleachershane

    bleachershane Forum Resident

    Location:
    Glasgow, Scotland
    Oasis and Red Hot Chilli Peppers are often guilty of awful rhymes...
    Oasis - Supersonic
    "I know a girl called Elsa
    She's into Alka Seltzer."
     
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  22. lschwart

    lschwart Senior Member

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    Richmond, VA
    Well, I should hope so.

    L.
     
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  23. Bolero

    Bolero Senior Member

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    North America

    haha really? I had no idea...sure sounds like "rabbit's" to me!

    ...not much better though :D
     
  24. Zack

    Zack Senior Member

    Location:
    Easton, MD
    Yeah but these lines are actually about a dog that licked a big pile of marching powder off a mirror somewhere in Gallagher land, which gives them a pass.
     
  25. search&destroy

    search&destroy Well-Known Member

    from "nancy (with the smiling face)".....more noticeably bad when sung by jack webb

    She takes the winter and makes it summer
    But summer could take some lessons from her

    gosh:nyah:
     
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