Well, after the first paired couplet in which the singer invites his ladyfriend to inform her parents that he’s relocating her in Bill Clinton’s home state, Mr. Ray Charles’ classic “What’d I say?” features a wonderful economy of lyrics.
Who can forget the compelling understated austerity of the chorus?:
The man could have sung the telephone book backwards and made it hummable.
The Robert Fripp version of “Exposure” from the album of the same name. The lyrics are mostly someone saying the word very slowly repeatedly as someone else spells the word repeatedly.
The Peter Gabriel version has some lines about “Space is what I need, It’s what I feel” mixed in with the repetition of “exposure” but no one spelling on that one.
The Everclear instrumental song “El Distorto De Melodica” includes an evil sounding laugh and a processed scream but no real words.
Daft Punk’s Around the World repeats the title for about seven minutes. That’s only three words.
And there was a hardcore techno track out a few years ago by Hocus Pocus called Here’s Johnny. It’s only lyrics were the two word Jack Nicholson sample from The Shining.
I think Adult.'s Nausea only has the word naws-ya! repeated over and over, but I couldn’t be sure.
Well, even though he was in elementary school at the time - maybe we can point a finger of blame at Bill Gates for this is it 13 or 14 words dilemma.
In his Word program, noone (as opposed to no one) comes up as acceptable in the grammar check and on the thesaurus as a synonym for ‘nobody’ and ‘not a soul’.
I was always taught there wasn’t any such word as noone and Webster’s online confirms that…but who am I to argue with a billionaire?
There are all the Dwarvish drinking songs from the Discworld :
“Gold, gold, gold, gold,
Gold, gold, gold, gold,
Gold, gold, gold, gold,
Gold, gold, gold, gold…”
Motley Crue’s “God Bless the Children of the Beast” has these words sung at the end of a short instrumental piece by the same title on Shout at the Devil.