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== English examples ==
* '''baby/maybe''' (Buddy Holly's use is tame compared to the [[Eagles]]' "Take It Easy", the [[Spin Doctors]]' "Two Princes",
** Worse is rhyming either of those words with "lady".
** Worse yet is baby/crazy.
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** And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl": "Brownsville girl/Show me all around the world"
* '''heart/start/apart'''
* '''party/Bacardi''' ([[Mariah Carey]]'s "It's Like That", Huey Dunbar's "Bacardi Party", Jagged Edge's "Where the Party At?", Nada Surf's "Bacardi", Official Kardinal's "Bacardi Slang", Benzino's "Rock the Party", [[
** Comedian Mike Birbiglia's "Guitar Guy At The Party", more of a bit than a song, contains this rhyme along with a couple of other awful rhymes. Apart from the few that suck, the rest of the song doesn't rhyme at all.
* '''fingertips/lips/hips''' ("Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus comes first to mind)
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** "Flame" by Pete Townshend. "Flame, you set me on fire/Nothing can take me any higher/I'm fueled on emotion and full of desire."
** In perhaps the most distilled example of this trope, [[U2]] manages to work both fire/desire and lips/fingertips into a single verse in "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."
*** [[U2]] also pulls off fire/higher/desire
**** So does Alabama in "There's a Fire in the Night".
** Augustana manages this with the song "Fire" "Fire burning me up/Desire taking me so much higher/And leading me home"
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* '''love/above/of'''. Also --/glove/shove/dove. Songwriters are often advised to avoid rhyming "love".
** Kenny Rogers' "Tomb of the Unknown Love" uses love/above/love in the chorus, ''and'' shove/love in the first verse.
** "From Austin back to Chaucer
** Lampshaded by [[Ogden Nash]] in his poem "Spring Song"
{{quote|While ye, ye otherwise useless dove,
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* '''home/come''', and '''Word/Lord'''; These are ridiculously common in Christian hymns.
** '''mild/child''' is another staple of hymnals.
* '''Heaven/seven''' (as with "love", there just aren't too many English words rhyming with "heaven"
** Worse is Heaven/given, extra points if they change it to Heav'n and Giv'n to make it fit in one syllable.
** In "Inside the Fire", Disturbed manages to rhyme heaven, eleven, and "Devon", the unusual but valid name of the song's female character.
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** This one also showed up in Chris De Burgh's popular "Lady In Red."
** And in "Mr. Right Now" by the Povertyneck Hillbillies, which has one of the most cliché bridges ever: "How do you feel about a little romance / Can I buy you a drink or do you wanna dance / What do you think, are you willing to take the chance?"
** See also [[Michael Jackson]]'s [
** "Barbara Ann" hits all three in the first two lines ("Went to a dance looking for romance / Saw Barbara Ann and I thought I'd take a chance...")
** "[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure|Heartcatch Paradise]]" starts rhyming "chance" and "dance", not with "romance", but with "change".
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* '''charms/'''[hold you in my] '''arms'''. Like several of the examples above, made worse by the fact that nobody would ever say anything like "I love all your charms" unless they were singing a song and planning to work some arms into the lyrics at some point.
* '''holly/jolly''' in Christmas music.
** Lampshaded by [[Terry Pratchett]] in, appropriately enough, ''[[
{{quote|'''Susan:''' This is a time to be jolly. With mistletoe and holly. And other things ending in "olly".}}
* '''make up/break up''' is not as interesting a dichotomy as several musicians seem to think.
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** In Swedish you have '''härta/smärta''' ("heart/pain").▼
== Russian examples ==
* Swedish: '''dig/mig''' ("you/me")▼
* The most well known overused rhyme in Russian is '''Любовь/кровь''' ("love"/"blood"). Nowadays only notoriously bad pop music still uses it.
== Swedish examples ==
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[[Category:Stock Room]]
[[Category:Music Tropes]]
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