For its length I’ve always thought Hey Jude could do with significantly fewer na na na nas and more actual lyrics.
But, you know, they’re the Beatles so I should probably hush my mouth.
There are many White Stripes lyrics that fit the bill of the OP, but in a good way I think. The choruses are seldom repeated just for repetition’s sake, and are sometimes very short, but satisfying. Get the point across, then end the song.
Hush Your Mouth!
Seriously, Hey Jude is probably the most filled-out song in the Beatles canon. Three full verses, 2 different bridge lyrics, and a closing stanza that is a variant of the first. And then a whole bunch of na-na-na’s.
“Crown of Creation” by Jefferson Airplane:
You are the crown of creation,
You are the crown of creation,
You are the crown of creation,
And you’ve got no place to go!
That is a great opening, but the lyrics fall apart after that.
Also, The Beatles’ “Girl” starts out with a wonderful first verse (the wonderfulness is mostly due to the melody and and John’s vocal, but the lyric does not get in the way), but goes to pot after that, largely because the lyrics become cliched and misogynistic (although the middle eight is uncharacteristically horrible musically too). The lyrical quality makes a bit of a comeback in the final verse, but it is too late by then.
When “Electric Avenue” came out, I said to myself that the verses were just blah-blah filler excuses to get back to the killer chorus. One, I think, consists of “Oh no!” repeated three or four times.
Colour My World - Chicago. Supposedly Sinatra called Jimmy Pankow and ask him to write another verse so he could record it. Pankow thank him, but said no, saying it would take away from the song.
“Walk Right Back” by Sonny Curtis, as recorded by the Everly Brothers: Curtis was in basic training, and had a weekend pass and met up with the Everlys and the Crickets in a recording session and sang them the first verse of his new song.
They told him that if he wrote them a second verse, they’d record it. So he went back to his post, wrote a second verse and put it in the mail. It crossed with a letter telling him they’d already recorded it – having no second verse, they simply sang the first verse twice. It was #7 in the U.S. and #1 in the U.K.
These eyes of mine that gave you loving glances once before, /
change to shades of cloudy gray.
I want so very much to see you, just like before.
I’ve got to know you’re coming back to stay.
Please believe me when I say, /
“It’s great to hear from you.”
But there’s a lot of things a letter just can’t say, oh me.
Walk right back to me this minute;/
bring your love to me; don’t send it.
I’m so lonely every day.
Tim Hardin - If I were a carpenter
Covered by many other artists, note that he has to repeat the whole song to make it long enough. Basically the song is finished in 1:30
Tim Hardin - Reason to believe,
Covered by many other artists, note that he has to repeat the whole song to make it long enough. Basically the song is finished in 1:20
How about this execrable offering
Dead or alive - You spin me round - count the number of times he repeats his lines, maybe he should reduce the lyrics to zero
T.Rex - Metal Guru
Talk about the extended fade out - the song is finished well before 1:30
Your Mother Should Know by The Beatles
*Verse 1:
Let’s all get up and dance to a song
that was a hit before your mother was born
Though she was born a long, long time ago
Your mother should know
Your mother should know
Sing it again *
This verse is then repeated verbatim, followed by a verse that substitutes “Lift up your hearts and sing me a song” for the first line but is otherwise identical. The last verse goes the “da da da da” route.
I’ve sung the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies’ “Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line” several times in karaoke. It’s lots of fun, except that there are only two verses of lyrics separated by the longest instrumental bridge in any pop-song ever, and I just have to kind of stand around waiting.
Pretty much every disco song had this problem. I personally despise More More More by Andrea True, but I guess the winner in this category is Fly Robin Fly* by the Silver Convention
*This is not only the title, but along with the line “up up to the sky” it constitutes ALL the lyrics.
Henry the VIII I am I am. They just have the chorus (which strangely they call the verse) and no verses.
I absolutely hate the fact that they don’t say “Silent Lucidity” one last time at the end of the song. It feels unfinished.
Thought of one: The Trees by Rush. One more verse describing the conflict would not detract from the story and would still leave time for many minutes of uninterrupted music.
As I just mentioned in the Stevie Wonder thread: Sir Duke could use another verse and more jamming.
One of Jimi’s biographies claims that there were five or six additional stanzas to Purple Haze, lost to the mist of time. It might be interesting to see them, but otoh, knowing how trips go, I suspect there is a good chance they are not worth the trouble. Curiosity may well be more interesting than actually knowing in this case.
To me, “Rich Woman” from Alison Krauss and Robert Plant doesn’t have very many.
God bless you and them always!!! 
Holly (a fan of Alison since 1994)