Songs that use very few rhyme sounds

Also know as “yellow ribbons” from “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree.” Except for “time/mine” and “bus/us” every single rhyme is an “ee”: free, me, tree, three, see, key, repeated ad naseum.

Any others?

You might want to exclude songs with minimal lyrics such as the Beatles’ “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road” which has no rhymes, or Hotlegs’ “Neanderthal Man” which has one (“girl/world”).

“I Want to Hold Your Hand” is borderline, with only three rhymes, two of them employing the same basic sound: “man/hand”, “understand/hand,” and “inside/hide”.

Oh yeah, and another Beatles example, “For You Blue” – all the rhymes are “oo” sounds (you, blue, too, etc.).

Most of the lyrics by Robert Wyatt, which don’t rhyme at all.

Here’s snipped of “Moon in June.

Tom Lehrer’s “When You are Old and Gray” has this sequence of rhymes:

Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise:

Dissipation
Race Relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation…to the evils of the world

Not the first or last song to use that rhyme.

Hank Williams, “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”.

It helps that, the way he sings it, “Jambalaya” and “bayou” rhyme. But even without that, pretty much every line ends in the same vowel, IIRC.

“So Long” Fisher-Z

Andrew Bird’s “Fake Palindromes” had some lines that don’t rhyme at all and some that do rhyme but the same sound is only used 2-3 times. However, he gets a run of eight rhymes for “eyed” at the beginning of the song, a run of five rhymes for “shoes”, and a run of six using words ending in “ad” or “at”.

A lot of Pearl Jam lyrics don’t rhyme at all, but “Nothing As It Seems” (one of the few Pearl Jam songs with lyrics by bassist Jeff Ament) relies very heavily on words ending in “ome/one” with some “ees/eems/eeds” thrown in.

INXS’s “Mediate.”