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** Together/weather is pretty popular too, usually taking the form of something like "we'll always be together/no matter what the weather".
* '''girl/world''' (Aqua's "Barbie Girl", [[Madonna]]'s "Material Girl", Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl", Brooks & Dunn's "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)", [[Tori Amos]]' "Upside Down", [[Hilary Duff]]'s "All Around the World", [[Gwen Stefani]]'s "Rich Girl", [[Madonna]]'s "4 Minutes", almost any song with a line ending in "girl."
** A particularly heinous example occurs in Misteeq's "Scandalous" rhyming not only 'girl' with 'world' but also with 'pearls' and 'twirl'
** Subverted in "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" by [[Led Zeppelin]]: "You can tell your friends all around the world / there ain't no companion like a blue-eyed" In any other song, the next word would be "girl", but since this song is actually about Robert Plant's dog, the word is "merle."
** Also subverted in "My Kind of Girl" by Collin Raye, which uses "Merle", "pearls", and "Tilt-a-Whirl" as rhymes.
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There you sit, sitting spare like a book on a ''shelf'', rusting
Ah, not trying to fight it }}
** Bob Dylan's "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of hearts" has this: "Big Jim was thinking to himself/Maybe down in Mexico or a picture upon somebody's shelf".,
* '''fire/desire/higher''' (as in The Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling": ''The logs on the fire/fill me with desire'')
** Used by many well-regarded bands e.g, [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Black Sabbath]], [[The Doors]] etc.
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*** [[Prince]]'s "Sign of the Times."
*** Lampshaded in ''[[Shrek]] 2'': "You can spoon on the moon/With the prince, 'til it's June!"
*** June Moon and Joe Doe are the "rhyme scene investigators" in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXUM40PuWYI related Sesame Street sketch].
*** In one '60s strip of the British newspaper comic ''[[The Perishers]]'', young Wellington gets all cod-philosophical on the subject while looking at the moon with his dim friend Marlon.
{{quote|'''Wellington''': Moon and June, how well they go together... but if June had been called Moptember or the moon had been called the blop, well, they just wouldn't have rhymed, would they?
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** Just one of many crimes against music in R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly."
** The Moody Blues song "Blue World" used all three in the same line: "Fly me high, touch the sky/Leave the earth below...."
** The very first verse of Lenny Kravitz's "Fly Away" rhymes all three of these words. In an arguable case of [[Rhyming with Itself]], "dragonfly" shows up as a rhyme in the same stanza.
* '''home/come''', and '''Word/Lord'''; These are ridiculously common in Christian hymns.
** '''mild/child''' is another staple of hymnals.
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* '''ten/again'''
* '''rhyming/timing'''
* '''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, ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'':
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*** Heather Alexander's self-parody "December of Cambreadth" cries out with savage Celtic glee, "How many of them can we bring toys?!" That makes it worthwhile.
* '''rest/best''' - as used in advertising: "You've tried the rest, now try the best" and so on.
* '''swagger/Jagger''' (Thank you so much, [[
* '''war/for''', usually for the sake of wondering "what this fighting is for" or somesuch.
* '''goodbye/cry/lies/eyes'''.
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