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So, which song has the most lyrics?

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Inspired by the Rapper's Delight luv.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

"Percy's Song" by Bob Dylan seems to go on for even longer than some of his other long songs.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

"Slip Inside This House" by the 13th Floor Elevators is quite long.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I love Percy's Song, but can see why people hate it. The Dylan song that always seemed endless to me was Ballad In Plain D, his worst song that doesn't contain background singers.

Blinded By The Light by Springsteen has a lot of lyrics. As does Myxamotosis by Radiohead

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

for comparison

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Other verbose Dylan tunes:

"Highlands"
"Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts"

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Stagger Lee

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

To recap...

Percy's Song has 487 words
Blinded by the Light has 527
Slip Inside This House 550
Highlands has 863
Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts has 890

Rapper's Delight has 2986 words

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

if not Rapper's Delight, it's gotta be some other hip-hop song, they just cram more words in there.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 11 March 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

The Iliad beats them all.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

But it's not a particularly tuneful melody, as I recall.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

dee dee duh dum. ba ba ba.. iiilllllliiiaaaadd. oh illiaaaaaaaaaad.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)


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