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  2. Harness Your Hopes - Wikipedia

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    He then decided to turn it into a B-side. [ 3 ] The song's second verse, "Show me a word that rhymes with pavement/And I won't kill your parents and roast them on a spit," is a joke description of the word "depravement," with Malkmus describing the line as "the kind of thing you write when you're feeling cocky and you think it's a b-side [sic]."

  3. Limerick (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Now the Vicar is quicker, And thicker, and slicker, And two inches longer than you. [1] Chorus: That was a cute little rhyme Sing us another one, do--oo-- [1] chorus Here's to old king Montazuma For fun he buggered a puma The puma one day Bit both balls away An example of animal humor. [1] There is a version of this song which is rendered for ...

  4. Multisyllabic rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Multisyllabic rhymes are one of several rhyming devices which have increased in usage throughout the history of rapping, [19] along with such devices as internal rhymes and offbeat rhymes. [19] Music scholar Adam Krims, writing in 2001, noted the following artists as exemplifying the increased complexity in rhyming, including use of ...

  5. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    Couplets are the most common type of rhyme scheme in old school rap [9] and are still regularly used, [4] though complex rhyme schemes have progressively become more frequent. [10] [11] Rather than relying on end rhymes, rap rhyme schemes can have rhymes placed anywhere in the bars of music to create a structure. [12]

  6. Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...

  7. A-Hunting We Will Go - Wikipedia

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    A-Haunting We Will Go (disambiguation), a title play on this song "Bye, baby Bunting, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting", a similarly constructed song "Ee Aye Addio" - an English football chant to the same tune "The Farmer in the Dell" - a song with similar lyrics, content, and music "You're in the Army Now" - another song with similar lyrics

  8. The Mock Turtle's Song - Wikipedia

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    The poem was set to music by György Ligeti in his "Nonsense Madrigals" (1988/93). The song is sung by a chorus to the "real" Alice in the 1985 film Dreamchild . The song was included on The Simon Sisters ' children's album, The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children (1969).

  9. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]