"I love the work of Allen Funt/ or a nicely shaven...leg": Songs With Implied Curse Words

y'know, songs where the rhyme scheme makes you think a line will end in a curse word, but instead you get a short pause and a different word that doesn't even fit the rhyme. I know this trick must be incredibly common in country music, but the only thing I can think of now is Jean Shepard - "Two Whoops and a Holler":

How come a man can fight and cuss and smoke and drink and chew
Step out on their wives and do the things they shouldn't do?
But it's all right in the publics' eye, they say he's just a man
But if a woman does one little thing, she's not worth a......
Two whoops and a holler, she's lower than a hound
If she drinks or smokes or tells a joke, she's a lowest thing in town

...where a drumbeat and a rhythmic jolt replaces the damning word, almost like they cut out a short section of the tape. can I have some more examples? and when did people stop doing this?

Craig Campbell - Fish

The first time we did it I was scared to death
She snuck out in that cotton dress
Jumped on in and we drove to the lake
Put her hand on my knee and said I can't wait
I had everything we needed in the bed of my truck
Turns out my baby loves to...

Fish, she wants to do it all the time
Early in the morning, in the middle of the night
She's hooked and now she can't get enough
Man, that girl sure loves to fish

Killers, "Mr. Brightside"

now they're going to bed
and my stomach is sick
and it's all in my head
but she's touching his...
chest, now

Huey Lewis & The News, "The Heart of Rock and Roll"

When they play their music, that hard rock music
They like it with a lot of flash
But it's still that same old back beat rhythm
That really kicks 'em in the....
They say the heart of rock and roll is still beating

granted the killers were smart enough not to put a bass slide or something in between the lines

I never noticed that in the Killers song

Fluffy Hunter & Jesse Powell - Walk Right In basically rules this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNmO-jpQbvA

I didn't notice the Killers bit myself until it was mentioned on some other thread years ago

awesome, Col. Poo! I'm looking for old stuff like that.

ugh there's an old song that does this over and over that they play on the todd glass show all the time as a joke but i have no idea what it is, has kind of a polka feel

Shaving cream?

Madvillain - Great Day

Last wish, I wish I had two more wishes
And I wish they fix the door to the Matrix, its mad glitches
Spit so many verses sometime my jaw twitches
One thing this party could use is more...
Booze.

My baby drives a truck
My baby sure is good luck
My baby has a pet duck
And my baby is a heck of a... ffff-riend

Yeah, that's right, Somebody kicked my dog Mavis and I'm gonna find out just who the hell it was
I'm all messed up on cough syrup right now so just like never mind

from "Rastabilly" by the Dead Milkmen

"Why don't you all f-f-f-fade away..."

Here's "Shaving Cream"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyNca5ZEuEQ

Hailee Steinfeld - You're Such A

Damn, you're such a...
Did you think that I would let you
Crawl right back into my bedroom
After everything we've been through?
I know the truth
That, damn, you're such a...
Difficult little devil

the gag doesn't really work here though: the narrator (/18-year-old Hailee) is confrontational from the start and doesn't hesitate to say "damn", so why can't she bring herself to call her ex a dick? the official clean version actually works better conceptually, but it's also really fucking weird to censor the word "d**n" in 2016, and the implicit dick would be enough to keep this song off the Christian bookstore playlists even without the damns

I recently heard a really good (old timey country?) song that used this trope, but I can't remember what it was :-(

I'm not a wimp
and I'm not a wussy
I'm just in comedy
To get pictures of other comedians

xp Somewhat bizarrely, the word d**k is censored even in the Explicit version of "yes, and?" (which has the ess-aitch word in the chorus)

(oh, and the f word)

I saw a Wanda Jackson show where she sang Happy Birthday to the bartender, like:

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Get plastered, you baaad boy
Happy birthday to you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5kHHl9U5M