Interesting rhymes in lyrics
Interesting rhymes in lyrics
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DickyC

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54,335 posts

214 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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From Whiskey in the Jar:

And me, I like sleepin', 'specially in my Molly's chamber
But here I am in prison, here I am with a ball and chain yeah

Chamber - chain yeah

Clever. Natural. You don't think about it. I've known Thin Lizzy's version for fifty years and I've only just noticed it.

https://youtu.be/6WDSY8Kaf6o

Plus, with Thin Lizzy's version, you get to hear Eric Bell on lead guitar which is a good thing.

smile

Ryyy

1,888 posts

51 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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I really like

Creep with me as I crawl through the hood,maniac,lunatic, call him snoop Eastwood.

Also humpty dumpy sat on a wall, humpty dumpy had a great fall. Interesting wink

Again ETA :
he broke the mirrors of his cadillac, 'cus he doesn't like it looking like he looks back smile I think that's my winner beer

Edited by Ryyy on Wednesday 26th October 08:23



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Edited by Ryyy on Wednesday 26th October 09:04

MesoForm

9,504 posts

291 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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If you can filter out all the swear words and just look at the lyrics on a page, Eminem is really good at this and you can see there are rhymes in just random places in the line:

To make a cast, beat his ass naked and peed in his corner like Verne Troyer
Ya'll are Eminem backwards, you're Meni Mes
See he's in a whole 'nother weight class
He slugs, you're BBs, you're bean-bag bullets
You're full of it; you were dissin' his CDs
Laughed at Infinite, now he's back like someone pissed in his Wheaties
No peace treaties, he's turned into a beast
His new Slim Shady EP's got the attention of the mighty D. R. E
He's almost famous

So in there you've got "Mini Mes" (plural of mini-me), BBs, CDs, Wheaties, treaties and EPs all rhyming and this is just a random section of a random song.

And more famously
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti.
He's nervous. But on the surface, he looks calm and ready ...
to drop bombs. But he keeps on forgetting.

Who would've though "mom's spaghetti" rhymes with "on forgetting"

witteringon

1,867 posts

57 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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Ian Dury, unsurpassed for doggerel lyric writing:



Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers
He must have been a pencil squeezer
He didn't do the Mona Lisa
That was an Italian geezer


Einstein can't be classed as witless
He claimed atoms were the littlest
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frightened everybody stless

There ain't half been some clever bds
Probably got help from their mum
(who had help from her mum)
There ain't half been some clever bds
Now that we've had some
Let's hope that there's lots more to come



pequod

8,997 posts

154 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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Not forgetting Jake Thackray, poet and singer/songwriter in the French tradition, a 'chansonnier', with efforts such as this.....

''Leopold Alcox, never known to fail,
Working his way through my frail Chippendales.
One blow from his thighs, which are fearsomely strong,
Would easily fracture the wing of a swan.
I brought home my bird for some Turkish moussaka.
Up looms old Leopold; I know when I'm knackered.
He spills the vino, the great eager beaver,
Drenching her jump-suit and my joie de vivre......''

toasty

8,014 posts

236 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast

Des’ree must have spent whole minutes coming up with this gem.

PomBstard

7,401 posts

258 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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witteringon said:
Ian Dury,
This bloke - pretty much every song has some random, surprising poetry, but Reasons to be Cheerful is my fave - I won’t post the lyrics here cos there are just too many random bits to choose - worth finding and reading though…

“Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly, Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats”

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

277 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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'When you saw me in the restaurant, you could tell I was no debutante.'

Also Springsteen's

'She'll see this time I wasn't just talking
Then I'm gonna go out walking'


'Walking is just there to rhyme with 'talking', yet he somehow makes going out for a stroll sound a natural way for a low end hoodlum to celebrate after a heist.



witteringon

1,867 posts

57 months

Wednesday 26th October 2022
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Not sure if this fits the criteria, but I don't really care!


THE IRISH BALLAD
words and music by Tom Lehrer
About a maid I'll sing a song,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
About a maid I'll sing a song
Who didn't have her family long.
Not only did she do them wrong,
She did ev'ryone of them in, ·
Them in,
She did ev'ryone of them in.
One morning in a fit of pique,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
One morning in a fit of pique,
She drowned her father in the creek.
The water tasted bad for a week,
And we had to make do with gin,
With gin,
We had to make do with gin.
Her mother she could never stand,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
Her mother she cold never stand,
And so a cyanide soup she planned.
The mother died with a spoon in her hand,
And her face in a hideous grin,
A grin,
Her face in a hideous grin.
She set her sister's hair on fire,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
She set her sister's hair on fire,
And as the smoke and flame rose higher,
Danced around the funeral pyre,
Playin' a violin,
-olin,
Playin' a violin.
She weighted her brother down with stones,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
She weighted her brother down with stones,
And sent him off .to Davy Jones.
All they ever found were some bones,
And occasional pieces of skin
Of skin,
Occasional pieces of skin.
One day when she had nothing to do,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
One day when she had nothing to do,
She cut her baby brother in two
And served him up as an Irish stew,
And invited the neighbors in,
-bors in,
·Invited the neighbors in.
And when at last the police came by,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
And when at last the police came by,
Her little pranks she did not deny.
To do so she would have had to lie,
And lying, she knew, was a sin,
A sin,
Lying, she knew, was a sin.
My tragic tale, I won't prolong,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
My tragic tale I won't prolong,
And if you do not enjoy my song,
You've yourselves to blame if it's too long,
You should never have let me begin,
Begin,
You should never have let me begin.

Yetski

667 posts

179 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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A couple of classics from Bad News, Drink Till I Die.

Give me another drink Mr Bartender
If you don't I'm going to stick your dick in a blender

Lager makes me happy, vodka makes me mean
I'm a heavy metal, drinking, driving, alcohol machine

king arthur

7,296 posts

277 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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Who can forget the immortal -

Mike Oldfield said:
4 a.m. in the morning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
As I watched your vision forming
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
As opposed to 4 a.m. in the afternoon of course.

Pieman68

4,266 posts

250 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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Imagine his surprise
When he opened his eyes
And I ran the lawnmower over his thighs

Welcome to the Cheap Seats - The Wonderstuff

TwigtheWonderkid

46,393 posts

166 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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PomBstard said:
witteringon said:
Ian Dury,
This bloke - pretty much every song has some random, surprising poetry, but Reasons to be Cheerful is my fave - I won’t post the lyrics here cos there are just too many random bits to choose - worth finding and reading though…

“Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly, Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats”
Cheddar cheese and pickle
The Vincent motorsickle.

Also, from Billericay Dickie

Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my Cortina
A seasoned up hyaena
Could not have been more obscener
She took me to the cleaners
And other misdemeanours
But I got right up between her
Rum and her Ribena.

StevieBee

14,232 posts

271 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
PomBstard said:
witteringon said:
Ian Dury,
This bloke - pretty much every song has some random, surprising poetry, but Reasons to be Cheerful is my fave - I won’t post the lyrics here cos there are just too many random bits to choose - worth finding and reading though…

“Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly, Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats”
Cheddar cheese and pickle
The Vincent motorsickle.

Also, from Billericay Dickie

Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my Cortina
A seasoned up hyaena
Could not have been more obscener
She took me to the cleaners
And other misdemeanours
But I got right up between her
Rum and her Ribena.
...'ad a cuddle on the couch
with a nice bit of post from Burnham on Crouch.

We could just post all his work here and the thread would be done smile

The guy was a genius.

His son's just as good. Check out Miami by Baxter Dury.

"I'm the turgid little goat, pissing on your fking hill... but you can't ship me out because you can't catch me - coz you're so fat. So fk yer!"

Actually, that doesn't rhyme - but still good!



paulguitar

30,564 posts

129 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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'Our veranda will command a view of meadows green,
The sort of view that seems to want to be seen.'

From 'The Folks Who Live On the Hill'


Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

1937.


Magnum 475

3,814 posts

148 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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Well I’m gonna sing a song about Lady Muck
It weren’t her real name but it rhymes with F**k

Macc Lads - Lady Muck

DickyC

Original Poster:

54,335 posts

214 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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It's getting kinda late now
I wonder if you'll stay now

Hazel O'connor - Will You?

It's a brave singer who sings half way and then leaves the sax player to build on the melancholy she created.

popegregory

1,787 posts

150 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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toasty said:
I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast

Des’ree must have spent whole minutes coming up with this gem.
Saw title, came looking for this smile

miniman

28,220 posts

278 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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I’m serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer

Stunters

614 posts

210 months

Thursday 27th October 2022
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Another vote for Ian Dury and another vote for Eminem.

My favourite rhyme of Eminem's is Britney Spears/switch me chairs. Well, nearly a rhyme, but - bravo.