Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <1242@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 23:44:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxq.1242 Posted: Thu Sep 27 23:44:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:39:51 EDT References: <208@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 26 -- >> 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 The clear winner--and it actually was a winner of such a contest I read somewhere--is that late 60's classic: "Honey". Let me see if I can remember a line (they're all gruesome): She wrecked the car and I got mad but what the heck, I guess you'd say she saw through me and hugged my neck. Or something like that. The runner-up in this same contest was the equally forgetable "Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree". -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 27 Sep 84 [6 Vendemiaire An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***