# Songs with non-rhyming lyrics

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [June 29, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272 "2021-06-29T19:16:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272/21 "2021-06-30T13:32:55Z")

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The Hollies’ song “Carrie Anne” doesn’t rhyme very much. There a couple of near rhymes (“I played a janitor, you played a monitor”, and “never caring/disappearing”), but most of the song doesn’t rhyme.

There’s an old song called “Moonlight in Vermont,” which has been recorded by such folks as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Sam Cooke, among others, whose lyrics don’t rhyme.

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272/22 "2021-06-30T13:56:48Z")

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Tons of Pavement songs. Here are just two of their most well-known:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AnrM4UjaQmY/hqdefault.jpg "Pavement - "Stereo"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrM4UjaQmY)

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1VVj1zqbWpU/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGH8gOygTMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBra3ojX7iBw14-9UTLob_beTju_Q "Pavement - Range Life (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VVj1zqbWpU)

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**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272/23 "2021-06-30T14:39:34Z")

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Alice Cooper “School’s Out”

_Well we got no class  
And we got no principals  
And we got no innocence  
We can’t even think of a word that rhymes_

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**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272/24 "2021-06-30T16:02:23Z")

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They Might Be Giants’ “Minimum Wage”.

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