# Songs with no rhymes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624 "2008-01-23T03:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/21 "2008-01-24T02:29:26Z")
[“Stephanie Says,”](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/v/velvet+underground/stephanie+says_20143916.html) by Velvet Underground: > [@](#): > > Stephanie says that she wants to know > Why shes given half her life, to people she hates now > Stephanie says when answering the phone > What country shall I say is calling from across the world > > But shes not afraid to die, the people all call her alaska > Between worlds so the people ask her cause its all in her mind > Its all in her mind **Awesomely** haunting song! Wish I could find it on karaoke! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/22 "2008-01-24T02:33:43Z")
A lot of Bright Eyes songs don’t rhyme, or if they do, they’re slant rhymes sprinkled at various points in the songs, not your typical lyrics at all. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/23 "2008-01-24T02:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] [Frank Mills](http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Hair/Frank-Mills.html), from the musical _Hair_, is a good example of this. [/QUOTE] Come to think of it, a **lot** of [the songs in _Hair_](http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/h/hairlyrics/) don’t rhyme. > [@](#): > > I’m a > Colored spade > A nigger > A black nigger > A jungle bunny > Jigaboo coon > Pickaninny mau mau > [@](#): > > Prisoners in Niggertown > It’s a dirty little war > Three Five Zero Zero > Take weapons up and begin to kill > Watch the long long armies drifting home > [@](#): > > What a piece of work is man > How noble in reason > How infinite in faculties > In form and moving > How express and admirable > In action how like an angel > In apprehension how like a god > The beauty of the world > The paragon of animals > [@](#): > > Cigarettes, shoe polish, cough syrup, peyote > Equinol, dexamil, camposine, Chemadrine, > Thorazine, trilophon, dexadrine, benzedrine, methedrine > S-E-X and Y-O-U, Wow! Then again, many do, and deliciously: > [@](#): > > LBJ took the IRT > Down to 4th Street USA > When he got there > What did he see? > The youth of America on LSD Am I the only GenXer who is sad to have missed the Sixties? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/24 "2008-01-24T02:45:12Z")
The lyrics to [Boom Boom](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/martinscorsesebestoftheblues/boomboom.htm) by John Lee Hooker don’t rhyme except for the “walk that walk, talk that talk” part. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/25 "2008-01-24T06:54:21Z")
“ **White Room** ” by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown performed by **Cream**. > **[Cream - White Room lyrics | LyricsFreak](https://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/cream/white+room_20034207.html)** > > Read or print original White Room lyrics 2023 updated! \[Wheels of Fire - In the Studio:\] / In the white room with black curtains near the ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/26 "2008-01-24T15:22:12Z")
FWIW: In Leonard Cohen’s [Suzanne](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/leonard_cohen/suzanne.html) the verses about Suzanne do not rhyme. The one about Jesus, and the chorus, do. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/27 "2008-01-24T18:28:30Z")
They Might Be Giants’ “Minimum Wage”. So as to satisfy the copyright law’s “small excerpt” clause, I’ll only quote half of the lyrics: > [@](#): > > Minimum ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/28 "2008-01-25T00:21:58Z")
\*Moonlight in Vermont \* by John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf. _I Got Rhythm_ by the Brothers Gershwin. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/29 "2008-01-25T00:54:15Z")
Note to self: know what you’re talking about before posting. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/30 "2008-01-25T03:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=Julius Henry] _I Got Rhythm_ by the Brothers Gershwin. [/QUOTE] _I Got Rhythm_ has several rhymes in the verse: sunny/money, sigh/buy, song/along, day/way, lot/got. The only rhyme in the chorus is in the bridge, where it rhymes door with more. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/31 "2008-01-26T13:25:59Z")
Going through my Andrew Lloyd Webber collection, I came up with Jesus Christ Superstar’s [“Could We Start Again Please.”](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/jesuschristsuperstar/couldwestartagainplease.htm) Then I turn on the radio and get the Rolling Stones singing [Honky Tonk Woman](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/honky+tonk+woman_20117865.html) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/32 "2008-01-26T14:13:47Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Then I turn on the radio and get the Rolling Stones singing [Honky Tonk Woman](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/honky+tonk+woman_20117865.html) [/QUOTE] To me, Honky Tonk Woman has rhymes. Ride/mind, fight/mind. They are half rhymes, but lots of songs get away with half rhymes for their rhymes. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/33 "2008-01-27T05:06:13Z")
Just sitting here thinking of it, does _Unchained Melody_ have rhymes? There are _some_ rhymey parts, but this may only be a partially rhyming song. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/34 "2008-01-27T15:47:16Z")
For my money, Finger Eleven’s [Thousand Mile Wish](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5X6sOr9HdA) (\<- YouTube) is the best song on that album. I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t more popular because it not only didn’t rhyme, it also didn’t have a chorus. > [@](#): > > Forgive me if now I wear the face of worry > This time alone could never cause any doubt > But I’ve been cold too long > Such a strange time to find myself coming down as the rain > With all the holes my love, > To fill up from the middle > This storm could stay all night > > So can you stay until we close our eyes > Til your dreams hold mine > Just stay until we know we tried one more time ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/35 "2008-01-27T16:24:43Z")
[Tom’s Diner](http://www.lyricsdomain.com/19/suzanne_vega/toms_diner.html) by Suzanne Vega. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624/36 "2008-01-27T17:19:00Z")
If I am recalling all of the lyrics correctly, “Piano Lesson” from _The Music Man_ has no rhymes. If the factoid from VH1’s Pop-up Video is to be believed, “How Do I Live” by LeAnn Rimes only has one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-no-rhymes/434624.md?page=1)