One that I recently learned to sing and play:

Jethro Tull's Mother Goose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2S_Vly6ZyM

Soul Coughing's "Super Bon Bon" (and about 90% of the rest of their stuff)

The lyrics consist of one word (Hey).


Gary Glitter - "Rock and Roll Part 2" Also an example of the song title having nothing to do with the lyrics.

My siblings and I were recently reminiscing about songs our father used to sing back in the fifties. My sister recalled one entitled, "Ain't We Crazy". It was what they called a nonsense song and was written in 1928. It begins, "It was midnight on the ocean, not a streetcar was in sight...". Check it out on YouTube. I'm not good at links.

There was a rather eclectic group in the 1960s-70s that I really dug. Their third album is #40 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 albums of all time (whatever that's worth). The lyrics to their songs were often quite twisted and mind-numbing, but let's not forget this was the era of Bob Dylan and some really free-flowing lyrics. I'm not embarrassed to admit that I play a number of their songs on guitar, because the chord changes, rhythms and interludes are quite inventive and pleasing. That group was named Love, and their leader was a man named Arthur Lee. Here are two of the song lyrics I play:

QUE VIDA!

[Verse 1]
With pictures and words
Is this communicating?
The sounds that I've heard
The growling voice then fading
And yes my heart was beating
Or was it just repeating

[Verse 2]
With nickels and dimes
You soon will have a dollar
Am I in your time
I see no need to swallow
Or catch a plane to travel
My mind's not made of gravel

[Verse 3]
Can you find your way
Or do you want my vision
It's dark there, they say
But that's just superstition
And in my last inspection
Is this the right direction

[Verse 4]
I once had a girl
She told me I was funny
She said in your world
You needed lots of money
And things to kill your brother
But death just starts another

MY LOVE SHE COMES IN COLORS (said to have inspired the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow")

A thought in my head, I think
Of something to do
Expressions tell everything
I see one on you

Whoa-oh-oh-oh, my love she comes in colors
You can tell her from the clothes she wears

When I was invisible
I needed no light
You saw right through me, you said
Was I out of sight?

Whoa-oh-oh-oh, my love she comes in colors
You can tell her from the clothes she wears
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, my love she comes in colors
You can tell her from the clothes she wears
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, my love she comes in colors
You can tell her from the clothes she wears

When I was in England town
The rain fell right down
I looked for you everywhere
'Til I'm not around

Whoa-oh-oh-oh, my love she comes in colors
You can tell her from the clothes she wears