For some people, you just gotta spell it out. Even in song:
“Method of Modern Love” - Hall & Oates
“D-I-V-O-R-C-E” - Tammy Wynette
“SOS” - ABBA (the only palindrome group to have a palindrome song in the Top 40)
“R.O.C.K. in the USA” - John Mellon Cougarcamp
“ABC” - The Jackson 5ive
“Respect” - Arethea Franklin
“YMCA” - The Village People
“Bingo” - traditonal
“Gloria” - Van Morrison
“Oscar Meyer” jingle
“Saturday Night” - The Bay City Rollers
F is for fighting, R is for red,
ancestors’ blood in battles they’ve shed.
E, we elect them, E, we eject them,
in the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
D, for your dying, O, your overture,
M, they will cover your grave with manure.
This spells out Freedom, it means nothing to me,
As long as there’s a P.M.R.C.
Muddy Waters: I’m a man
Spell, M-A chile, N
That’ll well within’ man
No, B.O. child Y
That mean mannish boy
M is for the many things she gave me
O is only that she’s growing old
… (okay, I can’t remember the rest, but)…
Put them all together, they spell MOTHER
A word that mean the world to me.
“Your Dictionary” – XTC. In which Andy Partridge spells out several words describing his ex-marriage and the ways his ex-wife maligned him. Not easy listening.