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Chorus-Only Song
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The song is known only by its chorus. Few know of the existence of verses. If a verse is known, it's the related trope of the Second Verse Curse. If the Chorus is really it for lyrics, it becomes a Single Stanza Song. If it extends to the title, goes into Refrain from Assuming. If the title is all people get in the chorus, can get into Something Something Leonard Bernstein. This is true of many songs from Tin Pan Alley days, which have verses which have been long forgotten by everybody but music geeks. It doesn't help that publishers often remove the verses of these songs to save pages. Original cast albums of older Broadway musicals also often removed the verses of songs, either to keep playing times down on LP (or, worse, 78 RPM) sides, or to make them more presentable as potential song hits. Also an Enforced Trope in most TV advertisements that use late twentieth-century pop songs, apparently because the advertisers want to pay as few royalties as possible. See also Title-Only Chorus, compare with Something Something Leonard Bernstein. |
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An odd example of this is "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. It consists of a chorus, a bridge, the same bridge repeated, then the chorus repeated again. | |
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"The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls, to most. | |
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"Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba. Best known for "I get knocked down, but I get up again". That song. It's a shame, because the verses would make the most awesome drinking game ever. I drink a whiskey drink, I drink a vodka drink... | |
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"Children Will Listen" from Into the Woods has verses not used in the show. | |
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"When You Wish Upon a Star", as heard in Pinocchio. | |
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The verse to the title song of Of Thee I Sing was printed in the vocal score, but with a note saying that it is not used. Few recordings include it. | |
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"Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee has this taken to an extreme - people only know the chorus, and they do so as "something something Gasolina" repeated 8 times. | |
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The Temptations: "War! Huh! Good god! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" Everyone knows that, barely anyone knows the verses. | |
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Power Rangers Samurai reuses the theme, but gets rid of everything but the chorus and changes the lyrics slightly. The only lyrics are "Go go, Power Rangers," and "Rangers together, samurai forever" (in place of "you Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers"). | |
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The opening theme of Princess Tutu, "Morning Grace." | |
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For many people, only the beginning of the song "Eye of the Tiger" is known, the lyrics are almost always forgotten. After its feature on Rocky III, several media used the song through the years as a stereotypical boxing theme tune often used for comedic effect, and the rest of the song is almost never played. | |
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The boss fight against the Cruise Chaser in Final Fantasy XIV has music with lyrics that is basically "Forward and back and then forward and back and then go forward and back, then put one foot forward" being sung several times in a row before the lyrics change. Because of how catchy the chorus is, many players sing it without singing the other parts of the song, if they even know about them at all. | |
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"Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses: it has verses, sung more or less clearly (though really fast), but everybody remembers only the lyrics of the chorus: "Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. TAKE ME HOME!". And even fewer people know the second verse. Except Masaaki Endo. |
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The chorus of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers theme song is iconic, but few people actually remember the opening verse—likely because only the chorus was in the opening of the show. Power Rangers Samurai reuses the theme, but gets rid of everything but the chorus and changes the lyrics slightly. The only lyrics are "Go go, Power Rangers," and "Rangers together, samurai forever" (in place of "you Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers"). |
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"The Sewing Bee" from The Golden Apple was reduced to a few choruses on the original cast recording (which was severely abridged in general). | |
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In Sonic Heroes each of the team theme songs are played this way when the teams have to fight each other. | |
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Hey, you know Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll (Part 2)"? You know, The Hey Song? Yeah, there's also a Part 1. Our European tropers are already going "WELL, NO SHIT" but they need to remember, only Part 2 got popular over in America! | |
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"Fancy" is an Iggy Azalea song featuring Charli XCX, but the part people remember best is the poppy chorus by Charli XCX. Although the "I-G-G-Y" part is pretty well known as well. | |
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Said sixth verse was also sung in Pokémon × Nimja: Play the Game in the episode "Dedicated To...". "Mijn schild ende betrouwen zjit gij O God mijn heer..." note "Mijnheer" is what [OGiNiM] calls Nimja. | |
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Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land", which could be why everyone believes it to be such a patriotic song. It's a protest song - it's the essence of patriotism! To make things worse, when the song's verses are included, they are often limited to the first three—while the protest elements are present, they become more clear in the two later verses. (The very last one ending in "Is this land made for you and me?") | |
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"Gangnam Style" by PSY. The only words people know are "Oppan Gangnam Style" and "HEEEEY!!! Sexy LADY!" because everything else is in Korean. Also applies to "Gentleman" and "Daddy" to a lesser extent. | |
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"I've Got You to Lean On" from Anyone Can Whistle has two meandering ensemble verses that the original cast recording omits to simplify the song. | |
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A scene in Canadian Bacon has John Candy and the other two guys singing the chorus of "Born in the USA" and "Oklahoma!!" over and over again because they don't know the rest of the lyrics. | |
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"How to Handle a Woman" from Camelot has a rather long verse that didn't make it onto the original cast recording. | |
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The Transformers: The Movie appears resigned to this. It adds completely forgettable lyrics around the already well-known "Transformers, more than meets the eye" Expository Theme Song, then removes them when the song is sung at the beginning of the movie, only playing them during the credits. | |
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The movie version of The Sound of Music famously opens with Julie Andrews singing the title song's refrain. Not only does the stage version include the verse, you can still hear its music in the movie's orchestral introduction if you listen carefully. | |
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"On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady has a deleted verse exclusive to the sheet music. The show precedes the song with a different verse not intended to work without the context of the surrounding dialogue scenes, so the original cast recording has no verse at all. | |
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As with many children's songs,note And not just traditional nursery rhymes, either. Puff the Magic Dragon (originally recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary) is often sung this way. | |
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"La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens (and later covered by Los Lobos for the soundtrack of Valens' biopic starring Lou Diamond Phillips). | |
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For some, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" are just those five words. | |
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Several of the songs from The Wizard of Oz have verses not used in the movie, including "Over The Rainbow", "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", "If I Only Had a Brain/Heart/Nerve", and "The Merry Old Land Of Oz". Even more surprising are songs that got cut out of the film entirely, including "The Jitter Bug", "Happy Glow", and "The Ozphabet". (The musical stage version retains many of them.) |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Plato's Stepchildren", the song "Maiden Wine" sung by Leonard Nimoy actually has two verses. It is usually cut for length on television. This song also suffers from I Am Not Shazam since the name of the song is usually called "Bitter Dregs" and the mistaken assumption that those words are the chorus of the song but they only appear in the first verse. | |
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"There She Goes" by The La's (later covered by Sixpence None the Richer) is this, since it doesn't have any verses. | |
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"Boss of Me", the title song for Malcolm in the Middle by They Might Be Giants, was only used in full once on the show: an extended music-video-like opening for season 2's "Old Mrs. Old". | |
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Most recordings of "Heartaches", including the Al Bowlly version most prominently sampled in The Caretaker's "Everywhere At The End Of Time'', only use the chorus lyrics. The published lyrics include two verses, the first of which appears in Seger Ellis's and Vera Lynn's versions. | |
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"Daisy Bell", the song that HAL sings in 2001: A Space Odyssey, has verses. Nobody remembers it under that title, either (HAL calls it "Daisy," but most people remember it as "A Bicycle Built For Two"), since only the verses mention a bell. As do "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" and "Where Did You Get That Hat?" |
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"99 Luftballons" by Nena, outside of "something, something, Captain Kirk" most Yanks only know "99 luftballons, blahblahblahblahblahblahblah, 99 luftballons". | |
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The theme song for The Jeffersons. | |
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"Don't Rain On My Parade" from Funny Girl has a brief opening verse ("If you live your life, life is bound to teach you...") that is not sung in the show. | |
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"Remember" from Danny Phantom is only a chorus song in the cartoon itself. The rest of the song is only depicted as mumbled background music, with only the chorus being clear. Years later the full song was leaked online and it's not quite as cheery as it seemed. | |
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Prince's "Batdance" has got to qualify. While it is admittedly far more of a dance number than a "sing-along" song, most people are unlikely to remember more than about 10 percent of the lyrics at best (assuming they can remember it at all). It doesn't help that the lyrics come faster and faster as the song rolls on, until by the finale they are all being uttered simultaneously. In fact, the one line (besides the chorus) that everyone seems to remember is the very first one ("Oh, I got a live one here!") - and that's only because radio deejays loved to play it as an out-of-context gag soundbite for years afterward. | |
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The chorus of "I Love the Nightlife" by Alicia Bridges is one of the most famous bits of the entire Disco genre ("I love the nightlife, I gotta boogie on the disco 'round"), so you're forgiven for thinking the song is just a celebration of Disco. In fact, the verses are a prime example of Lyrical Dissonance. The whole song basically boils down to "Our relationship sucks, I know you're flagrantly cheating on me, but I'd rather go dancing and not talk about it." | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic features "The Heart Carol" as a chorus-only song in the episode "Hearth's Warming Eve". The full version, which has two verse sections, wasn't released until two years after the episode aired. | |
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"Rock Me Amadeus" and "Der Kommissar" by Neue Deutsche Welle artist Falco. | |
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"Independence Day" by Martina McBride sounds like a patriotic song during its chorus ("Let freedom ring / Let the white dove sing / Let the whole world know that today is the day of reckoning..."). Much like the "Born in the USA" example, the chorus is often played on July 4th as a patriotic gesture. The verses, meanwhile, give the chorus context: the "independence" is independence from an abusive husband, in the form of a murder-suicide by arson on July 4th, while their daughter (the narrator) is at a fair. | |
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O-Zone's "Dragostea din tei" (a.k.a. "Numa Numa") is this for some people. | |
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You're unlikely to hear the (unmelodic) verse of "As Time Goes By" because it wasn't used in Casablanca. The melody is all right; it's the lyric that's the problem. Listen here. Needs no introduction, indeed. |
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"Anything You Can Do" has a short verse, but it's not used in Annie Get Your Gun. | |
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Oddly averted by Ivor Biggun, normally known for his terribly bawdy songs. | |
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While the verses of "Killing in The Name" by Rage Against the Machine aren't quite as overlooked thanks to the ample repetition involved, almost everyone begins joining in once the bridge to "FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!" begins. | |
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What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more. | |
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"Du Hast" by Rammstein. Though it's actually the repeated lines of the verse most people in the US Know. | |
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"Soft" by Motionless in White. If you've heard any part of this song, it'll be the "YOU'RE MINE, MOTHERFUCKER!" | |
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