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From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: The worst lyrics you've ever heard
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 08:05:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 08:05:51 1984
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This morning on WXRT (Chicago) I heard about a contest for songs with the
worst lyrics ever.

The winner was "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles.  You could argue about that,
but the runner-up award was well-deserved:  "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka.

[I always thought the "cute/moot" rhyme in "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield
ruined an otherwise decent song...]

Any nominations for songs with bad lyrics?  I'd especially like to see
songs with lyrics so bad (or pretentious) that they make you squirm just
to hear them (for example, terribly contrived rhymes).  E. g.:

"Till the stars fall from the sky
 For you and I".

 /Jeff Shallit