In honor of "The Lusty Month of May"--songs that rhyme syllables

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Camelot’s The Lusty Month of May includes the lines

The time for every frivolous whim
Proper or im-

and

When all the world is brimming with fun
Wholesome or un-

What other songs use this technique: If the words don’t rhyme, use syllables. I can think of two more from musicals:

In Forbidden Broadway’s Les Miz spoof “Do You Hear The People Sing”:

Come join with the few
Who have started a mu-
sical war.

And my obligatory Andrew Lloyd Webber referend: “Half A Moment” from Jeeves:

Even though
Half a mo-
Ment is too few.

What others are there?

2

I remember, from somewhere, Tom Lehrer’s attempt to find a rhyme for “orange”:

Eating an orange,
While making love,
Makes for bizarre enj-
Oyment thereof.

3

Lehrer did it elsewhere:

And you may have thought it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do.
(from We Will All Go Together When We Go)

Turn on the spigot,
Pour the beer and swig it,
And gaudeamus igit-
tur. (Referring to a Yale song sung in latin: Gaudeamus igitur)
(From Bright College Days)

4

Beans could get no keener re-
ception, in a beanery
Than our mountain greenery
home
–Mountain Greenery, Garrick Gaieties of 192(6?) Rodgers and Hart

5

(submitted too soon)
Which is one of my all-time favorite songs. Lorenz Hart was a gawd and the master of these.

For example:

Poor Johnny One-Note
Got in Aida
Indeed a
Great chance to be brave
“Johnny One-Note”, Babes In Arms, Rodgers and Hart

or

Summer journeys to Niagra
and to other places aggra-
vate all our cares.
We’ll save our fares!
“Manhattan”, Garrick Gaities of 192(5?), Rodgers and Hart

or

Hear me holler, I choose a
Sweet lollapaloosa
In thee
"Thou Swell, Connecticut Yankee, Rodgers and Hart

Just to name a few!

Fenris

6

We want to pin this triple mur-
der
on him
He ain’t no Gentleman Jim.

-Bob Dylan, Hurricane

7

I don’t want a pickle
I just wanna ride my motorsic…
cle.
and I don’t wanna die
Just wanna ride my motorcy…
cle.

Arlo Gurthrie (the Motorcycle Song)

8

Fleming & John’s “Sadder Day”:

9

Tom Lehrer also had a few of these in Smut

Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can’t shut,
If it’s uncut,
and unsubt-
le.

I’ve never quibbled
If it was ribald,
I would devour where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he
acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
“To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance.”

Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they’re hard core.