Originally Posted By: Pat Marr
Another aspect of this is that our minds intuitively supply the obvious rhyme, even if the song writer doesn't make it.

A song I heard at Merlefest recently is a good example of the effect you can get by purposefully refusing to make the obvious rhyme.

The song was about an unfaithful and promiscuous wife . The following line drove the audience into immediate laughter:

Quote:
She hired the neighbor's son to cut our grass
She gave him cold ice tea and a piece of pie

(the rest of the song rhymed at every line, as follows)
My landlord came while I was out of town
Our pipes got fixed and the rent went down...

(Paul Thorn, "BURN DOWN THE TRAILER PARK")


This deliberate non-rhyme was instantly translated by the entire audience into the obvious rhyme... and in so doing, it was funnier than if the singer had delivered it as a rhyme in the first place.


That is funny! I know the style you speak of. Here is a decent example of this...

Be Together soon

Both lyrically and musically it leads you to the unexpected.

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.