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* Basshunter literally does this many times with his own songs, with examples ranging from the chorus-only "Vi Sitter I Ventrilo Och Spelar DotA" to not realizing "Jingle Bells" has [[Did Not Do the Research|more than one verse]].
* "Take Me Out To The Ball Game." The verses, as it happens, are actually quite interesting, centering as they do on a [[Tomboy]] who loves baseball.
* Several hymns suffer from this.
** so do national anthems. Does even [[The Queen]] know the other verses to [[God Save the Queen]] ?
*** [[Land Of Hope And Glory]], as mentioned elsewhere
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* "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba. 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...
* It's a bit of an in-joke in the [[Goth]] fandom that nobody remembers the lyrics of [[The Sisters of Mercy]]'s "This Corrosion" other than the "Hey now, hey now now now, sing this corrosion to me" chorus.
* 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].
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*** This is a particularly odd case in that it's not unusual for casual listeners to know both (some of) the verse and the chorus, but ''think they're different songs''.
* [http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/lostverses/lostverses.php This page on ParlorSongs.com] details the process in which verses of Tin Pan Alley songs became obscure.
** Many songs from Tin Pan Alley days have verses which have been long forgotten by everybody but music geeks—so much so that guessing the song from its first verse became a parlor game.
*** "Give My Regards To Broadway" is a good example of this.
*** As are most songs written by the Gershwins.
* 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc4iLg_3SGk here]. Needs no introduction, indeed.
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** And its near companion "We Are The Champions".
* "When The Saints Go Marching In"
* War! Huh! Good god! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Everyone knows that, barely anyone knows the verses.
* "London Calling" by [[The Clash]]. In fact, most people don't even seem to know any of the chorus besides those two words.
** Actually an inversion, since those two words are from the verses of the song, not the chorus.
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* "Wild Thing/You make my heart sing"...
** Wild Thing, I think there are verses/But I wanna know for sure...
* A scene in ''[[Canadian Bacon]]'' has [[Three Amigos|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.
* An odd example of this is "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. It consists of a chorus, a bridge, the same bridge repeated, then the chorus repeated again.
* Arguably, the opening theme of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsipExvcHgM Morning Grace]".
* [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|''When You Wish Upon a Star'']]
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