Songs that lazily rhyme "daughter" with "slaughter"

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The Who...oh wait they rhymed it with 'water'. The Stranglers...ah fuck

dave q, Monday, 3 November 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

only Maiden right?

stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Where two lions water/After casual slaughter/I will kiss the daughter/Of my vegetable friend"--Robyn Hitchcock. Wouldn't call that lazy, though.

Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"As I was sitting by the fire talking to old Reilly's daughter
Suddenly a thought came into my head,
I'd like to marry old Reilly's daughter

Giddy I ae, giddy I ae, giddy I ae for the one-eyed Reilly
Giddy I ae, (clap, clap, clap) try it on your old big drum

Reilly played on the big bass drum,
Reilly had a mind for murder and slaughter
Reilly had a bright red glittering eye,
and he kept that eye on his lovely daughter

Giddy I ae, giddy I ae, giddy I ae for the one-eyed Reilly
Giddy I ae, (clap, clap, clap) try it on your old big drum

Her hair was black and her eyes were blue,
the colonel and the major and the captain sought her
The sergeant and the private and the drummer-boy too,
but they never had a chance with Reilly's daughter

Giddy I ae, giddy I ae, giddy I ae for the one-eyed Reilly
Giddy I ae, (clap, clap, clap) try it on your old big drum

I got me a ring and a parson too,
ot me a scratch in a married quarter
Settled me down to a peaceful life,
happy as a king with Reilly's daughter

Giddy I ae, giddy I ae, giddy I ae for the one-eyed Reilly
Giddy I ae, (clap, clap, clap) try it on your old big drum

Suddenly a footstep on the stairs,
who should it be but Reilly out for slaughter
With two pistols in his hands,
looking for the man that had married his daughter

Giddy I ae, giddy I ae, giddy I ae for the one-eyed Reilly
Giddy I ae, (clap, clap, clap) try it on your old big drum

I caught old Reilly by the hair,
rammed his head in a pail of water
Fired his pistols into the air,
a damned sight quicker than I married his daughter

Giddy I ae, giddy I ae, giddy I ae for the one-eyed Reilly
Giddy I ae, (clap, clap, clap) try it on your old big drum"

(Irish Trad.)


Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Iodine" by Siobhan Donaghy does it, except it's not lazy at all (okay, maybe it is) because she deserves the benefit of the doubt and the song is lovably nuts in its lyrical tone.

edward o (edwardo), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Genious:
Liquid Hippos - rhymed

"... Daughter"
with
"Flows on tap like pisswater"

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My uncle painted Bruce Dickinson's house, apropos fuck all.

He really did though.

Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Maiden did it twice, because three years before that single they did:

Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade
Slept in the dust with his daughter, her eyes red with
The slaughter of innocence
But I will pray for her
I will call her name out loud
I would bleed for her
If only I could see her now

Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)


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