I’ve heard the version by The Temptations, and there are numerous wording changes. Starts something like, “Hey mister, please mister, I just want a dime. 'Cause I want a cup of coffee, and a moment of your time.” Well, maybe that was bad, too.
Also just realized that the songwriter, Ron Miller, penned some notable tunes.
Daddy, Don’t You Walk So Fast.
Or, walk faster. See if I care.
A lot of good choices here. The only song listed so far that I truely do like is Green Tambourine by the Lemon Pipers but I have to admit that it’s catchy tune with lame lyrics.
Many of you won’t agree with my choice but this so called classic is, in my opinion one of the worst pieces of shit ever to be visited upon humanity: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It’s self indulgent, trite crap. It’s a novelty song, people, not greatness.
Doesn’t count - it’s bad on purpose. It’s supposed to be over-the-top and ridiculous. I love the sobbing in the last verse.
I nominate “The Night Chicago Died” by Paper Lace.
I can’t get down with the disparaging of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” I love that song. There’s some fun harmony in it.
My submission? Don’t Take The Girl - Tim McGraw. Sweet Cracker Sandwiches, that song grates on me. It was really popular in karaoke for a while, so to get through every rendition of it ever done I change the words to other things:
Don’t feed the squirrels
Don’t wear the pearls
Kill cousin Earl
and so on…
I second the nomination for “Honey”. I also submit, “He Stopped Lovin’ Her Today”.
“Freebird” is a given. Hate that one, too.
I could go on about this forever!
Michael Jackson’s version of “Rockin’ Robin”
I’ll also nominate Donny Osmond’s “Puppy Love”, but I’m not sure they weren’t joking when they recorded it.
Re Freebird: About fifteen years ago, I decided to play a little game I like to call “Going the rest of my life without ever hearing that song again”. I just wanted to give myself a challenge, and of course, there is the added bonus of never hearing that song again. I’m doing pretty well so far, though I risk breaking a finger every time it comes on the radio and I jab at the buttons.
Once I was in a clothing store, and just as I came to the register, Free Bird came on. I handed my stuff to the cashier and told her I’d be back as soon as the song was over, and she changed the station for me. 
Every time we have one of these threads I bring up this song. It usually makes me bring up my lunch.
Some of these songs are so bad they are good and I put them into my “ABsolute Schlock” playlist on my iPod. I then play it for my family and watch them cringe. Yes, I’m evil. Why do you ask?
I may be oblivious, or just lucky, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Freebird” in my life.
Probably just oblivious.
Oh! That Lee Greenwood song–God Bless the USA.
I think I’m fixing to bring up a hairball just thinking about it.
ETA: Cal, I am in awe of your FB-avoiding skills!
Stay Awhile by The Bells.
Oh goody, I get to be the first to post “Young Girl” by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Actually their entire output is dreadful but that one gets extra points for the under-aged girl seduction ick factor.
Oh and I have to echo Kelly on the David Clayton Thomas hatred. “And When I Die” has sent me into fits of utter rage.
When I was in grad school, I somehow managed to miss “Achy Breaky Heart” for quite some time. I had heard references to it, and a lot jokes and so I knew it existed. And then it hit me one unsuspecting day. Now of course his evil spawn rules the pre-teen airwaves.
It’s “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing.”
Rod Stewart: “If ya want my body / And ya think I’m sexy / Come on sugar let me know.”
The lyrics get worse from there. That song gives me a creepy shudder whenever I hear it.
I don’t mean to be snarky, but I just don’t care. I know it when I hear it (and switch the radio off immediately). 
Thought of another one that you US Americans might have missed out on so far (so here’s a link to it for you) - Amy Sky’s “I Will Take Care of You” It’s musical glurge, and you can hear it on Canadian radio just about every week (and the song is about 15 years old). Here’s a selection of the lyrics:
and it gets sappier from there.
“Sex and Candy” by Marcy Playground
“My Humps” by Black Eyed Peas
We can’t have that!
No love for “Muskrat Love”? The Captain & Tennille.
How about “Runaway Love”? (Ludacris)
Young Love ::Shudder:: I had a part time job in college that played the oldies, that was in heavy rotation.
Angel by Shaggy.
The first time I heard it I thought it was a gag by a local DJ.
For the song or just DCT’s performance? It’s a Laura Nyro cover.
