LYRICAL BALLOTS

I have been stimulated by a discussion on Facebook, initiated by a Friend of a Friend (there must be a Facebook term for that) which aims to unearth the best ever rhyming couplet in pop music.

One of my favourites is from a musically quirky and eclectic and lyrically ingenious group called Slap Happy (featuring the cartoonist, musician and all round maverick polymath Peter Blegvad). Their albums are full of brilliant, literate, referential lyrics that would put many writers, let alone pop lyricists, to shame, but the one that sprang especially to mind is, from a song called Michelangelo,

Pope's on the phone, calling Buonarroti

But he's not home, he's gone a little potty.

And to offer just one example from the peerless Leonard Cohen:

I fought against the bottle, but I had to it drunk,

Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

I'd be keen to read your nominations.

David