The Song Words Puzzle

Most pop songs draw from a limited vocabulary. After all, most pop songs are like fast food, always the same, never a surprise. Song writers will deliberately replace an odd word or phrase by something smoother, blander, simpler. But that's not always true, and some pretty strange words have crept onto the charts. Can you name a popular song in which the following words occurred?

  1. Bismillah
  2. cockatoo
  3. detergent
  4. electrodes
  5. fontanelle
  6. gavotte
  7. Guggenheim
  8. mediocrity
  9. United Nations
  10. vestal

Show me some hints.

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Last revised on 15 March 2001.