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Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 00:35:49 EDT
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inmet!lutton    Oct  1 12:24:00 1984

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My nomination is for a song where mediocre lyrics are made worse by
absolutely terrible text setting:

"This Guy's in Love with You" by Bacharach and David.

                       guy's

You say this guy, this
                                     with you,
                                love
                             in

The high points of the melody accentuate the wrong words.
Handel was a pretty crummy text setter (Examples:  "All we like
sheep" and "FORE!! unto us a child is born" from Messiah, and
"SAVE THE CRICKET!!!" from Il Penseroso) but his excuse was
he didn't know English very well.  There's no excuse for
the way Bacharach set "if not I'll just, die-ie-ie" at the
end of "TGILWY".