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Stuttering in Lyrics
By Rob DeLand

Robbie,  You reminded me of a great song I heard on the Dr. Demento
radio show years ago: "The Freckle Song."  It has a rhyme-substituted-
for-something-else, as you can see:

   She's got freckles on her but_!_  she is nice
   And when she's in my arms it's paradise
   She was born in Hackensack
   She made a fortune on her career
   She's got freckles on her but_!_  she is nice

Notice it is written with an implied pause after "her", yet sung with
a pause after "but(t)".

Be careful, you're going to start a hilarious thread here!  There must be
hundreds of comic songs with this sort of lyrics; I have several such
folios, such as "Songs My Father Taught Me (Never To Sing)".

Mike Schwimmer loaned me two of these folios years ago.  (You could figure
that Mike would have something like this !  ;-)

Cheers, Rob DeLand


(Message sent Fri 22 Aug 1997, 16:35:53 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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