#280075 - 03/24/04 09:29 PM
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Can anyone tell me a song that does not have end rhymes? If you have the lyric or part of the lyric, that would be nice.
EDIT: BTW, I mean hit songs that I would know.
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#280076 - 03/24/04 09:36 PM
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Listen to "Surrender" by Cheap Trick. Hardly any rhymes there.
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#280077 - 03/24/04 09:50 PM
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It's what I always preach. A song doesn't have to rhyme at all to be good or even great. Surrender is an excellent example of that.
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#280079 - 03/25/04 02:22 AM
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I Got Rhythm by Gershwin
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I got rhythm
I got music
I got my girl
Who could ask for anything more?
This one doesn't rhyme too much
Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House
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There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never see the end of the road
While you're travelling with me
Chorus
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win
Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof
In the paper today tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win
Now I'm walking again to the beat of a drum
And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart
Only the shadows ahead barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of liberation and relief
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
Don't ever let them win
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#280080 - 03/25/04 02:32 AM
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The few places where there is rhyming (not including internal or spelling rhyme) are bold:
Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?
Come on, now.
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can’t explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
Ok.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
There’ll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working. good.
That’ll keep you going for the show.
Come on it’s time to go.
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
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#280081 - 03/25/04 02:37 AM
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Once there was this kid who
Got into an accident and couldn't come to school
But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white
He said that it was from when
The car had smashed so hard
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Once there was this girl who
Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room
But when they finally made her
They saw birthmarks all over her body
She couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just been there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
But both girl and boy were glad
'Cause one kid had it worse than that
'Cause then there was this boy whose
Parents made him come directly home right after school
And when they went to their church
They shook and lurched all over the church floor
He couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just gone there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
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#280082 - 03/25/04 03:09 AM
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Pearl Jam- Jeremy
At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops, with him on top.
Lemon yellow sun. Arms raised in a v,
and the dead lay in pools of maroon below.
Daddy didn't give attention, oh,
to the fact that mommy didn't care.
King Jeremy the wicked, oh, ruled his world.
Jeremy spoke in class today.
Jeremy spoke in class today.
Clearly I remember pickin' on the boy,
seemed a harmless little fuck.
Ooo, but we unleashed a lion.
Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast,
how could I forget?
And he hit me with a surprise left.
My jaw left hurtin', ooo, dropped wide open
just like the day, oh, like the day I heard:
Daddy didn't give affection, no,
and the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear.
King jeremy the wicked, oh, ruled his world...
Jeremy spoke in class today.
Jeremy spoke in class today.
Jeremy spoke in class today.
Try to forget this...try to forget this...
Try to erase this...try to erase this...
from the blackboard...
Jeremy spoke in class today.
Jeremy spoke in class today.
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in...
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in...
Jeremy spoke in class today...
(spoke in, spoke in...)
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#280083 - 03/25/04 06:46 AM
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This and many more...
ME262 :
Goering's on the phone to Freiburg
Say's Willie's done quite a job
Hitler's on the phone from Berlin
Say's I'm gonna make you a star
My Captain Von Ondine, here's your next patrol
A flight of English bombers across the canal
After twelve, they'll all be here
I think you know the job
They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers, ripened, ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die
In a G-load disaster from the rate of climb
Sometimes I'd faint and be lost to our side
But there's no reward for failure, but death
So watch me in the mirrors, keep in the glidepath
Get me through these radars, no I cannot fail
Not when great silver slugs are eager to feed
I can't fail, no not now
When twenty five bombers wait ripe
They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers, ripened, ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die
Me-262 prince of turbojet, Junker's jommo 004
Blasts from clustered R4M quartets in my snout
And see these English planes go burn
Now you be my witness how red were the skies
When the fortresses flow, for the very last time
It was dark over Westphalia, in april of T45
They hung there dependant from the sky
Like some heavy metal fruit
These bombers, ripened, ready to tilt
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Must they live that I might die
Must these Englishmen live that I might die
Junker.s jommo 004 (repeat many times)
Bombers at 12 o'clock high
ASTRONOMY: (actually there may be a rhyme in here)
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
His reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away
Come Susy dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you want to know where the winds come from
Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Four winds at the four winds bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it
Hey, hey, hey, hey
In hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms (repeat twice)
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Suzy dear
Would find themselves at the four winds bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
The origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Call me Desdenova, eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog, fixed and consequent
Astronomy...a star (repeat indefinitely)
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#280084 - 03/25/04 07:31 AM
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theres lots of different ways to say stuff and even more ways to WRITE stuff.
some times when you are tellink a story one has NO NEED TO RHYME. yet rhymin' is PART OF WHY one "likes" a given tune when you don't quite know why you like it.
even being one of mine this is a good example which goes from no rhymes to lots of rhymes.
Words and music by arell Spencer
circa2003 may24th
I saw a beautiful girl
in the grocery store
Oh I was standin' in line
and I did'nt have much to say
when she looked me in the eye
and she gave me a little wink
Oh I met that beautiful girl
in the parkin' lot
oh we talked for a while
and she asked me if I'd go for a ride
so I give her a wink of my own
and I said why not
oh so we ambled over to her limo
man it had black leather seats
keith richards and the stones
was on the stereo
when she asked me
I told her it was neat
then she poured some pink champagne
she asked me I said I do not drink
she said not even water
I said water would be alright I think
water would be alright I think
I said water would be quite alright I think
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#280085 - 03/25/04 10:32 AM
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Randy Newman "My Life Is Good"
A couple of weeks ago
My wife and I
Took a little trip down to Mexico
Met this young girl there
We brought her back with us
Now she lives with us
In our home
She cleans the hallway
She cleans the stair
She cleans the livingroom
She wipes the baby's ass
She drives the kids to school
She does the laundry too
She wrote this song for me
Listen
Yeah
The other afternoon
My wife and I
Took a little ride into
Beverly Hills
Went to the private school
Our oldest child attends
Many famous people send their children there
This teacher says to us
"We have a problem here
This child just will not do
A thing I tell him to
And he's such a big old thing
He hurts the other children
All the games they play, he plays so rough
Hold it teacher
Wait a minute
Maybe my hears are clogged or somethin'
Maybe I'm not understanding
The English language
Dear, you don't seem to realize
My Life Is Good
My Life Is Good
My Life Is Good, you old bag
My Life, My Life
Just this evening
Some young associates of ours
Are flying to see us from
New York City
They're gonna stay with us
Oh, a couple of weeks or so
I'm gonna take 'em to
Restaurants and everything
Gonna get'em some
Real good cocaine
They don't get much
Where they come from
And this one's guy wife
Is such a pretty little brown thing
That I'm liable to give her a poke or two
Whaddaya think of that?
Teacher, let me tell you a little story
Just this morning
My wife and I
Went to this hotel in the hills
That's right
The Bel-Air Hotel
Where a very good friend of ours
Happens to be staying
And the name of this young man
Is Mr Bruce Springsteen
That's right, yeah
Oh, we talked about some kind of
woodblock or something
And this new guitar we like
And you know what he said to me
I'll tell you what he said to me
He said, "Rand, I'm tired
How would you like to be the Boss for awhile?"
Well, yeah
Blow, Big Man, blow
My Life Is Good
My Life Is Good
My Life Is Good
My Life, My Life Is Good
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#280086 - 03/25/04 02:29 PM
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Yeah, Randy Newman!
When She Loved Me (from Toy Story II)
When somebody loved me
everything was beautiful
every hour we spent together
lives within my heart
And when she was sad
I was there to dry her tears
and when she was happy so was I
when she loved me
Through the summer and the fall
we had each other that was all
just she and I together
like it was meant to be
And when she was lonely
I was there to comfort her
and I knew that she loved me
So the years went by
I stayed the same
but she began to drift away
I was left alone
still I waited for the day
when she’d say
I will always love you
Lonely and forgotten
never thought she’d look my way
and she smiled at me
and held me
just like she used to do
like she loved me
when she loved me
When somebody loved me
everything was beautiful
every hour we spent together
lives within my heart
When she loved me...
How about Kevin Gilbert's creation, Toy Matinee?
There Was A Little Boy
Verse 1
Mother's crazy but she runs the family.
Two older sisters and the boy who's nine years old
He's old enough to see the way it's going
Somewhere the birds are singing
But Mother's all alone
He needs a father but she takes a lover.
This man is not a friend, shows no friendship.
This man just waits around to play with sister.
But he plays too serious, he plays too rough.
Short Chorus
How can you expect a child to understand the sickness of the world whose eyes are blind?
The dying man inside this little boy is questioning his once upon a time.
Verse 2
He leaves home early for a loveless world.
And he find what he needs with an older boy.
He's got a couple things to hide from mother.
He hopes she'll understand, she hopes he'll change.
Chorus:
How can you expect a child to understand the sickness of the world whose eyes are blind?
A world he can't hope to conquer, insecurities that fester in his mind.
No choice, no fault and no way out, no blame, no guilt, no friends, no cure, no crime.
The dying man inside this little boy is questioning his once upon a time. (There was a little boy.)
Verse 3
This boy was once a strong man - but getting weaker.
He carries more than just the shame inside.
His mother stays away and faces nothing.
She blindly wishes for a happy ending.
Repeat Chorus
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#280087 - 03/25/04 03:20 PM
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If I Was Your Girlfriend by Prince, it has rhyme, but they are not in the usual places. Kcbass
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#280088 - 03/25/04 04:18 PM
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Tracy Chapman's Fast Car. I dislike the song not because it has few rhymes but because it has no rhythmic sensibility; if she has six syllables to spit out and room for three, she spits them out anyway, ugh. Her other material (that I've heard) is not that way.
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#280089 - 03/25/04 04:36 PM
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David Bowie "Modern Love" & "China Girl"
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#280090 - 03/25/04 05:32 PM
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Across The Universe
(Lennon/McCartney)
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away Across the Universe.
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai Guru Deva Om
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on Across the Universe.
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box,
They tumble blindly as they make their way Across the Universe
Jai Guru Deva Om
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Sounds of laughter, shades of earth are ringing
Through my open ears inciting and inviting me.
Limitless, undying love, which shines around me like a million suns,
And calls me on and on Across the Universe
Jai Guru Deva Om
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
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#280091 - 03/25/04 05:59 PM
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Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey Hey Hey
Goodbye
 
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#280093 - 03/26/04 05:55 PM
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Moonlight in Vermont
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#280094 - 03/27/04 03:14 PM
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I must say, I am baffled by some of your guys' selections in this thread. Not picking on you, Mark, but in bold are near rhymes I have identified in your song...
Originally posted by Mark Zeger:
Randy Newman "My Life Is Good"
A couple of weeks ago
My wife and I
Took a little trip down to Mexico
Met this young girl there
We brought her back with us
Now she lives with us
In our home
She cleans the hallway
She cleans the stair
She cleans the living room
She wipes the baby's ass
She drives the kids to school
She does the laundry too
She wrote this song for me
Listen
Yeah
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That's just the first part!
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#280095 - 03/27/04 09:16 PM
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LiveMusic-
I don't feel picked on. 
I read "song that does not rhyme" to mean a song with no logical rhyme scheme.
So while there are some words in "My Life Is Good" that rhyme eventually, I guess I didn't detect a pattern. Using "us" to end 2 consective lines isn't a rhyme. IMO, neither are "room", "school", and "too" (close, but not quite there).
But what do I know. YMMV.
Anyway, Neil picked a better example from the Randy Newman songbook. LOVE that song.
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#280096 - 07/09/05 09:44 PM
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Originally posted by tradivoro:
Moonlight in Vermont
MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT
Written by John Blackburn & Karl Suessdorf
Pennies in a stream
Falling leaves, a sycamore
Moonlight in Vermont
Icy finger-waves
Ski trails on a mountainside
Snowlight in Vermont
Telegraph cables, they sing down the highway
And travel each bend in the road
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely...
Ev'ning summer breeze
Warbling of a meadowlark
Moonlight in Vermont
Telegraph cables, how they sing down the highway
And they travel each bend in the road
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely...
Ev'ning summer breeze
The warbling of a meadowlark
Moonlight in Vermont
You and I and Moonlight in Vermont
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#280097 - 07/10/05 08:29 AM
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In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
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#280098 - 07/10/05 01:55 PM
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I had never noticed that "Surrender" doesn't rhyme, but I always felt that there was something jarring about the lyrics. That's what it was- it really gets your attention. It's interesting how that's effective in different ways with some of these different songs: it makes the Pink Floyd sound conversational, while it gives the BOC songs a kind of prose storytelling feel. And it helps the Randy Newman songs sound so offbeat.
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#280100 - 07/11/05 04:20 AM
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Tequila,... dunno who wrote it though
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#280101 - 07/11/05 05:46 AM
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Three times a Lady by the Commodores (Lionel Ritchie)
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#280102 - 07/11/05 07:26 AM
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Originally posted by Jotown:
Three times a Lady by the Commodores (Lionel Ritchie)
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Three Times a Lady
The Commodores/Lionel Richie
Thanks for the times that you've given me,
The memories are all in my mind.
And now that we've come to the end of our rainbow
There's something I must say out loud.
You're once, twice, three times a lady, and I love you.
Yes, you're once, twice, three times a lady,
And I love you
I love you.
When we are together the moments I cherish,
with every beat of my heart.
To touch you, to hold you, to feel you, to need you.
There's nothing to keep us apart.
You're once, twice, three times a lady, and I love you.
I love you.
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#280103 - 07/11/05 09:19 AM
Re: Example of song that does not rhyme
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Lee Knight
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Registered: 10/19/01
Posts: 1077
Loc: Encinitas,CA,UNITED STATES
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Snow Patrol's How To Be Dead (Big in the UK)
The only rhyme is an internal one in the last line... I love his song
Please take it easy
It can't all be my fault
I haven't made half the mistakes
That you've listed so far
Oh baby let me explain something
It's all down to drugs
At least I remember taking them
And not a lot else
It seems I've stepped over lines
You've drawn again and again
But if the ecstacy's in
The wit is definitely out
Dr. Jekyll is wrestling Hyde...
For my pride
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#280104 - 07/11/05 02:11 PM
Re: Example of song that does not rhyme
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fantasticsound
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Registered: 04/07/01
Posts: 16644
Loc: Madison,TN, UNITED STATES
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How about the verses of On Any Other Day by The Police? (Written by Stuart Copeland) ..with the exception of the first two lines. But it's used to specific effect. (rationalization. )
On Any Other Day
There's a house on my street.
And it looks real neat.
I'm the chap who lives in it.
There's a tree on the sidewalk.
There's a car by the door.
I'll go for a ride in it.
And when the Wombat comes..
he will find me gone.
He'll look for a place to sit.
Chorus:
My wife has burned the scrambled eggs.
The dog just bit my leg.
My teenage daughter ran away.
My fine young son has turned out gay!?!
Pulled out the morning paper..
and spilled my tea.
(spoken:)Oh how could I do it?!?
(sung:)My wife is proud to tell me..
of her love affair.
(spoken:)Oh, how could she do this to me?!?
Chorus
And it would be ok on any other day.
And it would be ok on any other day.
(rinse and repeat...)
That Was Your Mother
A long time ago, yeah
Before you was born dude
When I was still single
And life was great
I held this job as a traveling salesman
That kept me moving from state to state
Well, I'm standing on the corner of Lafayette
State of Louisiana
Wondering where a city boy could go
To get a little conversation
Drink a little red wine
Catch a little bit of those Cajun girls
Dancing to Zydeco
Along come a young girl
She's pretty as a prayerbook
Sweet as an apple on Christmas day
I said good gracious can this be my luck
If that's my prayerbook
Lord let us pray
Well, I'm standing on the corner of Lafayette
State of Louisiana
Wondering where a city boy could go
To get her in a conversation
Drink a little red wine
Dance to the music of Clifton Chenier
The King of the Bayou
Well, that was your mother
And that was your father
Before you was born dude
When life was great
You are the burden of my generation
I sure do love you
But let's get that straight
Well, I'm standing on the corner of Lafayette
Arcoss the street from The Public
Heading down to the Lone Star Cafe
Maybe get a little conversation
Drink a little red wine
Standing in the shadow of Clifton Chenier
Dancing the night away
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