“Broken Record” by The Refreshments is funny, but I wouldn’t describe it as a novelty song.
I took a walk around my neighborhood
To get you off of my mind like I knew that I ought to
<snip>
You took another guy on that Caribbean cruise
While I stayed home and cried into my bottle of pills
Awfully different from Road to Europe wasn’t too good either, though it breaks the song to acknowledge the mishap.
Brian: Cause you get a kick out of carnage and guts
Stewie: And you get a kick out of stroking your…
Brian: woahwoahwoah you can’t say that on TV
Stewie: What, Ego?
Brian: Nevermind… song continues
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(since it’s meant to have that “flow” I broke it)
Then there’s the old cheer:
Rah rah ree!
Kick 'em in the knee!
Rah rah rass!
Kick 'em in the other knee!
And this little bit of verse I heard somewhere as a kid:
Spring has sprung
Fall has fell
Summer is here
And it’s hotter than usual.
The only “non-dirty” bait-and-switch in a non-novelty song that I know of is from “Strobe” by Adam Again:
Remember when you laughed in my ear three times
I was waiting for more you said “who am I”
Now you’re waiting in the shopping line
Saying here’s two nickels will you give me a quarter
Asshole, asshole,
A soldier went to war.
To piss, to piss,
Two pistols by his side.
Fuck you, fuck you,
For curiosity.
Twenty-four posts and no mention of Miss Lucy? This is my childhood exemplar of this category, whatever it might be named:
*Miss Lucy had a steam boat
The steamboat had a bell,
Miss Lucy went to heaven and the
Steamboat went to…
Hello operator
Please give me number nine
And if you disconnect me
I will chop off your…
Behind the 'fridgerator
There was a piece of glass
Miss Lucy sat upon it
And she cut her big fat…
Ask me no more questions
I’ll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Pulling down their…
Flies are in the meadow
The bees are in the park
Miss Lucy and her boyfriend
Are kissing in the…
Dark is like a movie
A movie’s like a show
A show is like a tv set
And that is all I know.*
At a rodeo, one of the clowns was talking about his car:
The fan belt won’t fan
The carburator won’t carb.
And the pistons won’t –
The Assuming song ( http:// The Assuming Song ) has always amused me. (Broken because it supposedly starts playing the song automatically. It didn’t for me, but I’ve got my browser set-up rather securely.)
Obviously, it continues in that vein, until the end:
Welcome to Duloc, such a perfect town
Here we have some rules, let us lay them down
Don’t make waves, stay in line
And we’ll get along fine
Duloc is a perfect place
Please keep off of the grass
Shine your shoes, wipe your…face
Duloc is, Duloc is
Duloc is a perfect place!!!
Current country song duet by George Strait & Kenny Chesney:
“Talkin’ ‘bout a bunch of shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiift work
Big ol’ pile of shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiift work”
(Naturally, the radio stations are running it completely into the ground.)
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, “I’m So Sick of You”:
“You don’t have an ounce of class
You’re just one big pain in the neck”
Wow, I’ve heard that song half a million times by now and I never caught that. Ha! Thanks. 
Eh, dunno. I can see where it’s supposed to fit in the rhyme scheme, but the since the music changes on the word chest, and it sort of rhymes with dress, I don’t think they really want you to hear it in the song. Not saying you’re wrong about it, just that it works better written than heard.
I always liked “How’s your whole family:”
Suck on a stiff cock-
tail with me.
Won’t ya do my as-
trological charts?
How’s your dic-
tation machine?
How’s your whole
family?
I would love to know what these are called, if anything. In our family, we think this is the very height of humor, and call them Private Eye poems, because they are how the clues are delivered in The Private Eyes. Tim Conway would never steer you wrong.
I said when I died, that I’d come back.
If you believe in ghosts, you’re on the right track.
I’m out of the grave, and roaming the moors.
If you want to be safe, you better lock all the windows and screens.
And for some reason I think they are even funnier when the scan gets messed up in addition to the rhyme.
In this house, it’s hard to survive.
Some will be dead, who are now alive.
Mr. Uwatsum is gone, 'cause he knew too much.
Bye for now, but rest assured we’ll keep in constant contact with each other.
No name, but yet another example. “The Walkin’ Blues” by the Jesse Powell Orchestra with Fluffy Hunter. Featured on Rhino Records’ compilation “Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B”
Sample lyric:
I got a man who is deaf and dumb
I got a man who is deaf and dumb
He couldn’t say a word til I made him…
Walk right in, walk right out
Walk right in, walk right out
That’s what this song is all about
“Vamos” by The Pixies:
We’ll keep well bred
We’ll stay well fed
We’ll have our sons
They will be all well hung
They’ll come and play
Their friends will say
Your daddy’s rich
Your mama’s a pretty nice lady
Not really a good example but I’m posting it anyway:
“Which Describes How You’re Feeling” by They Might Be Giants
You said “I’m feeling fine,”
but it didn’t really rhyme.
It didn’t rhyme. Overseas.
Which describes how you’re feeling all the time.
-FrL-
I don’t know the song, but I would imagine if the music changes right on the word “chest” then this heightens the effect of the broken rhyme scheme, rather than detracting from it.
-FrL-
“1000 Umbrellas” by XTC has a couple, although only one avoids a profanity:
One thousand umbrellas
Upturned couldn’t catch all the rain
That drained out of my head
When you said we were
**Over and over ** I cried…
…So with a mop and a bucket
I’ll just say forget her
Yeah, but the change makes it consistent with how it flows into the next line, making the “rhyme” between chest and dress seem like that’s like what they were going for. Dunno, I just listened again today, and it was more obvious that the “trick” could have been what they were going for, but I think there’s a reason I and another poster listened to this song for a couple years and didn’t hear it.
Give it a listen and see what you think, though I guess having read this now it’s hard to know how you would have heard it otherwise.
Two songs I remember:
“She’s Got The Biggest Parakeets In Town”
“She’s Got Freckles On Her Butt: She’s Pretty”
And a line from the song “How Come My Dog Don’t Bark When You Come Around?”: “He bit my brother on the leg, bit my sister on the arm, bit my mother on the front porch”.
Rule Britannia
Three monkeys on a stick
One fell do-o-o-o-own and broke his
Rule Britannia
Two monkeys on a stick
One fell do-o-o-o-own and broke his
Rule Britannia
One monkey on a stick
He fell do-o-o-o-own and broke his head.