# ian brown's F.E.A.R- any other songs with this structure?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 13, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-browns-f-e-a-r-any-other-songs-with-this-structure/312373 "2005-07-13T18:10:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-browns-f-e-a-r-any-other-songs-with-this-structure/312373/1 "2005-07-13T18:10:11Z")

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This is a song where in each line the first letter of each word spells F.E.A.R.

Extract of lyrics:

For each a road  
For everyman a religion  
Face everybody and rule  
F\*\*\* everything and rumble  
Forget everything and remember  
For everything a reason  
It’s a great song, and I was wondering if anyone else did a song structered like this, if so, what was the word, and did it work as well?

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**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-browns-f-e-a-r-any-other-songs-with-this-structure/312373/2 "2005-07-13T20:33:42Z")

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John Wesley Harding wrote a song called Wooden Overcoat:

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> Don’t ever act too humble  
> Don’t eat away thy heart  
> He’s tearing apart each dungeon  
> His tail’s an evil dart  
> And he’s wearing a wooden overcoat…

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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ian-browns-f-e-a-r-any-other-songs-with-this-structure/312373/3 "2005-07-13T20:48:16Z")

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Thanks! That’s exactly the kind of thing I wanted.