A Quiet Normal Life: The Best of Warren Zevon which I got back in 1986, has the radio edit version of Lawyers, Guns and Money which doesn’t even include that verse. I never understood why they just completely deleted an entire verse of the song.
Bowling For Soup has a few songs like that. Occasionally, Jaret and Erik will play an acoustic show, or the band will do an all-ages show (I last saw them at Animefest in Dallas), or they’ll even get invited to appear on our local Fox affiliate’s morning show… plus, you know they get airplay on Radio Disney - the whole Phineas and Ferb/Love Handel connection…
The only one of George Carlin’s Seven Words that appears in “High School Never Ends” is when Jaret sings the s-word:
He sings “same stuff” at the all-ages shows or on TV, changing a few other words here and there depending on the audience.
When Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” was first released, some stations edited it to eliminate the word “crap.” Others played it as recorded.
Devil Went Down To Georgia has “I told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best that’s ever been.” Radio edit changes it to “son of a gun,” which I actually kind of like better due to the rhyme.
Lily Allen “Smile” has a first verse with the only naughty word, but it sounds so natural.
R.E.M.'s “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” has the line “don’t fuck with me” in the last chorus. Pretty sure I heard it on the radio a few times.
Michael Jackson’s “Scream” - a duet with Janet - has the line “Stop fucking with me” in it. It’s bleeped in the video but generally not in radio AirPlay if I recall.
Huh. I think that edit ruins the effect of the climax of the song. Johnny kicked the Devil’s ass and told him so, in no uncertain terms. “Son of a gun” is just a cop-out, internal rhyme or no. 
Original “Boy Named Sue” has the term “son of a bitch” which was bleeped on most radio. Nilsson’s “You’re breaking My heart” has only the one swear word, but he does use it repeatedly.
That’s a matter of opinion!
Radiohead’s “Creep” has the line “You’re so fucking special” in it. I can’t recall if it’s repeated, but there was a radio version that replaces it with “You’re so very special.”
Yeah, it does soften the impact of the line, no doubt.
Sarah McLachlan, Building A Mystery:
“You’re a beautiful
A beautiful fucked-up man”
That’s not really the way I see it, is I guess the answer. Profanity doesn’t bother me, so I’ll occasionally swear when I’m speaking, but I don’t sound like the script of The Boondock Saints. To me it’s just another word you might put into a line, if it makes sense, rhymes, etc. Copious amounts of swearing sound like you’re 15 and trying to impress your friends.
Although I have nothing bad to say about the song with the second highest number of instances of ‘fuck’.
My example for the thread is AFI - Death of Seasons. It contains the word ‘fucking’ twice, and it’s the only profanity on the whole album. They put ‘scuking’ or something like that in the printed lyrics probably because they assumed correctly that the RIAA people would just do a Ctrl+F on the lyrics. And thus there was no Parental Advisory sticker on the album and little 12 year old Electric Warrior could get mom’s permission to buy the CD.
Daniels himself refuses to say “son of a bitch” anymore when he performs the song. He always says “son of a gun” now. Too bad, I always preferred “son of a bitch” myself.
Crowded House, Four Seasons In One Day
Smiling as the shit comes down, you can tell a man from what he has to say.
Everything gets turned around, and I will risk my neck again.
I honestly couldn’t tell you if it gets censored on radio, I’m too busy singing along.
I want to say that line is only in the song once, but I could be wrong.
Alanis’ Hand In My Pocket has the line “I’m brave but I’m chicken shit” that seemed to get by for the first few months (I’m certain I knew the lyric before I owned the CD, but I could be wrong…maybe not).
Argue it either way you want, but in Money for Nothing they use the word ‘faggot’ either two or three times. Now that it’s been re-released with the entire section of the song gone because Canada won’t allow it on the airwaves with the line in the song, I’ve been hearing it both ways on the radio. I’m guessing I’m hearing it w/o the line on XM and with it on FM.
I see they lifted the ban, but I know some stations still use the alternate version (which I’m reading has always existed).
The first thing that sprang to my mind was Steely Dan’s Show Biz Kids:
Show biz kids making movies of themselves
You know they don’t give a fuck about anybody else
Am I the only who had difficulty identifying the swear words in these examples? It actually took me three or four similar posts before the light dawned!
Tim Fite “Big Mistake”
Everybody gets to make one big mistake
So, I’m saving mine up for a very very special date
So I can fuck it all up in the most spectacular way.
Bob Dylan’s Hurricane has between 1 1/2 and 3 swear words, depending on your taste.
“That sonofabitch is brave and gettin’ braver
We want to put his ass in stir”
“And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger”
It is, to my knowledge, the only song wherein he uses any profanity at all. Makes it that much more powerful, IMHO.