People Who Died by the Jim Carroll Band
How about “Mediate” by INXS…
Hallucinate
Desegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate
Love your mate
Etc.
In the video, they imitated the flipcard thing that Dylan did for Subterranean.
B-52s - both 52 Girls and Dance This Mess Around definitely fit. Ooh, *Rocklobster *too.
For quick and tricky lyrics have a look at The Monkees’ Goin’ Down
Pepper by the Butthole Surfers seems a blatant homage to People Who Died. It’s sort of like a “WDSTF”-type song were remixed by Beck.
That reminds me of another Monkees one, also with Dolenz on the vocals - Midnight Train.
One more quick and tricky - Leroy Van Dyke’s Auctioneer.
Joan Baez’s Children and All That Jazz
Joey and Janet
Jennifer, Joshua
Justin and Jason
Jacob and Jordan
Heather and Shannon
Marisa and Kirsten
Kimmie and David
Who shall we play with?
Here comes my own son
Light of my life is
Younger than new leaves
Brighter than you please
Says that he loves me
Big as the world
and Gabriel Harris
You go to bed now
You go to bed now
It’s quarter to nine
I’m tired
I’m tired
I’m tired
WTF? “Let the Drummer Kick” by Citizen Cope is a cover?
I just want to thank you for getting that song stuck in my head. Man oh man.
Another list of things song: Weird Al’s ebay
The Hook by Blues Traveller Is quick and tricky (*part *of it is anyway - "…suck it in, suck it in . . ") as is Got the Time by Joe Jackson.
King Crimson’s Elephant Talk qualifies as a list that is neither quick or tricky (or particularly interesting or relevent).
“Do, Re, Mi” from “The Sound of Music”
Does the alphabet song count?
How about “ABC” by the Jackson Five?
The Na Na Song by Sheryl Crow
A little different and in a different genre, but Alphabet Aerobics and A2G by Blackalicious.
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon
Carol Brown by the Flight of the Conchords
Speaking of Paul Simon, A Simple Desultory Phillipic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission). Which has immediately reminded me of Subterranean Homesick Blues.
OMG, THANK YOU for posting this. I was coming back to this thread to mention this song, only I didn’t know the title or who did it, so I was going to be pretty useless.
“It had this video, with the flip cards!”
Great Big Sea did a faster cover of End of the World.
“Hardware Store” by Weird Al Yankovic. Try to sing that list in one breath. 
No love for Tom Waits? He’s got so many patter songs that he could fill an album with them.
Off the top of my head, I would say Step Right Up is the best of 'em, though Pasties and a G-String from the same album is also great.
Whistle Past the Graveyard is another good one, with that sort of “bragging” patter that you hear a lot in blues songs (and rap, too, I guess).
There are so many more in his songbook, too. He’s got a real gift for that sort of thing.
There are probably lots of good They Might Be Giants songs like this, too, like “Dinner Bell” (a pavlov-themed patter song in a round) and Purple Toupee (sort of a twisted take on history) among many others.
Now that you mention it, I love songs like that!
Tim
“toy geek”