Gimme an "F", gimme a "U", gimme songs that spell stuff

“S.E.X.X.Y.” – They Might Be Giants (TMBG).

I’m not sure what category “I Palindrome I” would fit, but it would probably be the only entrant in its field.

M.O.N.E.Y. – Lyle Lovett
Tell it like it T.I. Is – B-52s

It always seemed … wrong to me somehow that they only actually spelled M-E-T-H-O-D O-F L-O-V-E in the song. Admittedly, they would have had to spell awfully fast to fit in M-O-D-E-R-N, but it still felt like cheating that they omitted a word. And I expected BETTER from those two!

“M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” by Howard Johnson.

“M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old,
“T” is for the tears were shed to save me,
“H” is for her heart of purest gold;
“E” is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
“R” means right, and right she’ll always be,
Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,
A word that means the world to me.

“The Salvation Army Song” (parody)

Oh, G-L-O-R-Y,
I’m S-A-V-E-D!
I’m so H-A-P-P-Y
To be F-R-double-E (hee-hee!)
F-R-double-E from the ways of S-I-N,
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Tra-la-la, ay-men!

Chorus:
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Throw a nickel on the drum,
save another drunken bum!
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
Throw a nickel on the drum and you’ll be saved!

“F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O!”
Fire in Cairo- The Cure
(On a misheard lyrics site I saw that someone had misheard this lyric as F-I-R-E-A-N-T-S, oh oh oh!" :smiley: )

“And the D and the A and the M and the N and the A and the T and the I-O-N”
Hell- Squirrel Nut Zippers

Don’t Lets Start - They Might Be Giants

D World destruction
O ver and overture
N do I need apostrophe
T need this torture

O.K., this is pretty lame, but…

“D.I.Y.” – Peter Gabriel

[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle]
“M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” by Howard Johnson.

“M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old,
“T” is for the tears were shed to save me,
“H” is for her heart of purest gold;
“E” is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
“R” means right, and right she’ll always be,
Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,
A word that means the world to me.

[/QUOTE=rowrrbazzle]

Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother - Ray Wiley Hubbard

“M” is for the mud flaps you gave me for my pickup truck
“O” is for the oil I put on my hair
“T” is for T-bird
“H” is for Haggard
“E” is for eggs
“R” is for redneck

“U. G. L. Y.
You ain’t got no alibi
You’re just uglay!”

-Fishbone

:reads the rest of the thread:

:smack:

No, no, don’t mind me…

“W! A-S-H! I-N-G! T-O-N-baby! DC!”
– “Washington D.C.” by the Magnetic Fields

“M-I-S-S you much.”
– “Miss You Much” by Janet Jackson

H-A-double-R-I-G-A-N spells Harrigan (George M Cohan?)

Anything Box - Vile

F-U-C-K Y-O-U!

Be aggressive
B-E aggressive
B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

Sung by an actual group of cheerleaders on Faith No More’s Angel Dust.

I think it’s pronounced thusly:

BE! AGGRESSIVE!
B! E! AGGRESSIVE!
B! E! A-G-G! R-E-S-S-I-V-E!

I nominate Gloria, by Van Morrison:

G-L-Or-Are-iA! Gloooooria!
I’d like t’shout it evr’ day! Gloooooria!

Pedant: it’s the Fish Cheer. The song also only spelled … that at Woodstock; on the album, and I believe in all other live performances, it spelled F-I-S-H.

I can’t BELIEVE no one has cited the song that relates most directly to the OP:

If You See Kaye

R-a-g-g-m-o-p-p Raggmopp!

C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E

It’s as easy to sing it as saying your ABCs!

S…s…s…
A…a…a…
F…f…f…
E…e…e…
T…t…t…
Y…y…y…
Safety…Dance

Many of my early childhood memories are of MTV bands. Cable TV is a curse on us all.