Songs that spell out a word(s)

Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)

"Welcome to station W.E.F.U.N.K, better known as We-Funk
Or deeper still, the Mothership Connection"

 

That's an example of an acrostic, when the first letter of each line spells another word. Possibly deserves a thread of its own though I doubt there are very many examples in songs. The only other I can think of is Frank Black's Speedy Marie where the last two verses spell out the name of his lover:

Juxtaposed in each moment's sight
Everything that I ever saw
And my one delight
Nothing can strike me in such awe
Mouth intricate shapes the voice that speaks
Always it will soothe
Rarer none are the precious cheeks
Is the size of each sculpted tooth
Each lip and each eye

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought
And softest neck where always do I
Lay my clumsy thoughts
She is that most lovely art
Happy are my mind, and my soul, and my heart.

 

New England: "P.U.N.K." (Puny UnderNourished Kid)

 

"I've got a rhyme that ends in a riddle!

What's round on the ends and high in the middle?

OHIO!

OK, let's go

 

10cc. "One Two Fivr". R-E-G-G-A-E

 

In 1982, a no-hit wonder named Russ Mason put out a so-bad-it's-good single called "Prep Rap" on the Nemperor label. I think it was a not-very-subtle putdown of the "preppy" fad that had spread from Ivy League colleges to virtually everywhere. I remember that it sampled Pachelbel's Canon, and I also remember that near the end of this record, he spelled out S.N.O.B.

 

A few years ago, a New Jersey charity band called Holiday Express released a Christmas CD called Greatest Hits. One of the tracks was "Disco Santa," which was a medley of "Macho Man" and "Y.M.C.A." with new lyrics, sung by a great impersonator of original Village People lead singer Victor Willis. The YMCA lyric on this new version spelled out N.O.E.L.

 

And for us slightly younger geezers: a parody of Ragmop, by Allan Sherman - "Rat Fink" (1963)

 

Faith No More - Be Aggressive. Be Be Aggressive. B-E-A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

 

My first thought.

 

Y.O.U.- L-O-V-E-V-I L-L-E. Carl Perkins

 

There was a song that Captain Kangaroo used to play on his morning TV show with the lyric "M-A-double-S-A-C-H-U-S-E-double-T-S." Not until recently did I discover this was a real record called "Massachusetts, My Home State" by Linda Bowe and the Neighborhood Kids, released on the 20th Fox label in 1960.

 

If the acrostics count, then this surely must:

"S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)" by Joe Tex...

S. Y. S. L. J. F. M.
Save your sweet love just for me
D. K. W. I. M. T. M.
You don't know what it means to me
D. E. T. Y. S. L. A
Don't ever take your sweet love away
I. C. L. M. L. T. W.
I can't live my life that way
(Woo-ooo!)​

 

S is for 'Save It'
T is for 'Take It Slow'
O is for 'Oh No'
P is for 'Please, Please don't Go'

Jackson 5, "The Love You Save"

 

John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band - C-I-T-Y

 

Sorry to be pedantic, but they're not examples of acrostics - the initial letters of those lines don't spell out a word. That's called alphebetism or initialism I believe.

 

Here's an obscure one,
The Guess Who: "Fiddlin".

F-I-D-D-l-I-N spells fiddlin,
D-R-I-N-K-I-N spells drinkin',...

You get the idea.

 

Delicious

 

I couldn't find it in a search so I'm assuming it hasn't been listed yet:

Al Green--"L-O-V-E (Love)"

 

Justice - DANCE

 

"Crazy Mary" by Pearl Jam (written by Victoria Williams) has:

Little country store with a sign tacked to the side
Said "No L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G allowed

 

The Swimming Pool Q's - "Stick in My Hand"
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

 

nary a word sung or spoken in that instrumental.

 

american woman - the guess who

"say - a......"m"..........say e..........etc"