Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!gargoyle!shallit From: shallit@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Shallit) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <208@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 08:05:51 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.208 Posted: Thu Sep 27 08:05:51 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:24:30 EDT Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 18 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