Chorus-Only Song: Difference between revisions

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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.

See also [[Title-Only Chorus]].

* "Song 2" by [[Blur (Music)|Blur]].

** This example might be this trope ''squared''. How many people know words to the chorus other than "[[Memetic Mutation|WOO HOO]]" ?

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* Hey, you know Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll (Part 2)"? You know, The Hey Song? Yeah, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4PfW5Y_mQ 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!

* [http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/godblessamerica.html God Bless America]. (The verse begins "While the storm clouds gather / Far across the sea," which reflects on the song having been first published in 1938.) Let [[Big Beautiful Woman|Kate Smith]] show you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnQDW-NMaRs how it goes].

* [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s "Born in the USA" - double the fun in that without the verses the meaning of the song changes completely. Occasionally leads to [[Did Not Do the Research]] when people neglect to ''listen'' to the song [[Isn't It Ironic|before using it]].

* [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s "Born in the USA" - double the fun in that without the verses the meaning of the song changes completely. Occasionally leads to [[Did Not Do the Research]] when people neglect to ''listen'' to the song [[Isn't It Ironic?|before using it]].

* An inversion of sorts: the [[Standard Snippet]] version of "The Streets of Cairo" uses the tune of the verse, not the chorus.

* "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am"; largely the fault of Herman's Hermits, who only sung the chorus in their (very popular) version. "Second verse, same as the first!" Apparently they performed only the chorus because that was the only part they knew. So it could have been a [[Chorus Only Song]] before they recorded it.

* "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am"; largely the fault of Herman's Hermits, who only sung the chorus in their (very popular) version. "Second verse, same as the first!" Apparently they performed only the chorus because that was the only part they knew. So it could have been a [[Chorus-Only Song]] before they recorded it.

* Nobody cares about the verses to [[Kiss]]'s "Rock and Roll All Nite". Nobody.

** See, that's the kind of talk makes people get wild. But that's okay - ''you drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy...''

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* Rising rapper B.O.B's first album had a lot of songs like this. Higher is a perfect example, and literally plays out like this: Verse 1->Chorus->long instrumental->Chorus again. His songs had short verses with long choruses. A song that worked with it was Ghost in the Machine, however, because it's an absolutely epic tearjerker, which is hard to find in Hi-Hop nowadays.

* "Anything You Can Do" has a short verse, but it's not used in ''[[Annie Get Your Gun]]''.

* Assuming they've never heard the [[Cluster F Bomb]] bridge to [[Disturbed (Music)|Disturbed]]'s "Down with the Sickness", most people will probably know "Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness! Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness! Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness!". They may even forgo the rest for the title alone.

* Assuming they've never heard the [[Cluster F-Bomb]] bridge to [[Disturbed (Music)|Disturbed]]'s "Down with the Sickness", most people will probably know "Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness! Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness! Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness!". They may even forgo the rest for the title alone.

* If you've ever heard "Waltzing Matilda" chances are you've only ever heard not only the first verse and the chorus, but you'll also hear them ''misquoted''. The song itself is about a swagman who steals a "jumbuck" (sheep), then [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|drowns instead of letting the police take him]]. And everyone misquotes the line as "''You'll'' come a-Waltzing Matilda with ''me''" (The swagman sings "''Who'll'' come...", while the troopers sing "''You'll'' come a-Waltzing Matilda with ''we''".)

** Not to mention, the original lyrics for the chorus were set to a different tune.