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** In "If I Had A Million Dollars", the narrator, apparently, is willing to buy such things as a house, furniture for the house, a tree fort, a miniature fridge to go into the tree fort, a fur coat (but not a real fur coat, that's cruel), a green dress (but not a real green dress, that's cruel), the remains of John Merrick, an exotic pet (like a llama or an emu), art (maybe a {{Garfunkel}}), and his girlfriend's love.

* Music/PaulSimon's "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover", although he only does 6 or 7...

** Two other ChristmasSongs that qualify, "Come And I Will Sing You" and "Children Go Where I Send Thee".

* "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" by Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge. It's a short list, but potent.

** The best-known version in the U.S. was by Music/JohnnyCash.

** "All My Ex's Live In Texas", by Music/GeorgeStrait.

* Music/TheBeatles themselves also had a couple: "Come Together" is a list of things old flattop be and got, "I am the Walrus" is partly a list of things the singer is (including, yes, the walrus), and "Penny Lane" is a list of things found in Penny Lane

* ''Land of 1000 Dances'' by Cannibal and the Headhunters, Wilson Pickett, and various others (originally by Chris Kenner, although the "Na nana na na" part was added by Cannibal) is simply a list of dances, starting with "You've got to know how to pony".

* Near the end of "I'm In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk" (by The Freshies) it turns into a list of record labels that the band were (or at least purport to have been) rejected by.

* A good chunk of the lyrics to "The Girls Of Porn" by Music/MrBungle (essentially a glorified ode to masturbation) is dedicated to listing ultra-{{Squick}}y kinks and fetishes.

* Savage Garden's "Affirmation" is a list of the things the singer believes in.

* Allan Sherman had a few of these. "Holiday for States" was a version of "Holiday for Strings" in which he listed all fifty states plus DC. Many of his other songs were lists of things he or other people did. "Harvey and Sheila" is a short biography of the title couple. "Hungarian Goulash no.5" is a list of national cuisines (Borscht is what they're serving in the Soviet/Wait! I think I've got some on the stove yet"). "One Hippopotami" is a catalogue of irregular plural words (When Ben Casey meets Kildare you have a paradox"). Both versions of "Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh" is a list of stuff going on at camp. "Pills" is about....well, you get the idea.

* Hush Little Baby is a lullaby that lists what the singer will buy the baby if s/he falls asleep
* Old [=MacDonald=] is a list of animals on the farm and what sounds they make

* A good chunk of the lyrics to "The Girls Of Porn" by Music/MrBungle (essentially a glorified ode to ADateWithRosiePalms) is dedicated to listing ultra-{{Squick}}y kinks and fetishes.

* Also from Brazil, Titãs has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi0WbKNAGXQ "O Pulso"]], where the lyrics, aside from the chorus, are just a long list of diseases.

** The episode "Baby Got Black", Peter tries to get Jerome to be more tolerant of about white people by singing about their contributors to the world.

** A DVD-exclusive song from "Lois Kills Stewie" involves Stewie sings about the people he hates and wants to kill.

* Another notable example from French pop is L.E.J.'s "Pas peur" (Not Afraid) which is a long list of things she's not afraid of, mixing the mundane (storms, monsters, spiders, the dark) with examples of AdultFear like hell, oblivion, getting old, losing a loved one, and failure. The one thing she is afraid of? "Mais putain qu'est-ce que j'ai peur que tu puisses vivre sans moi." ("But holy shit am I afraid that you could live without me.")

** "Old Macdonald Had A Farm" is a list of animals and animal songs.

** Another song of this type he wrote (that isn't on an album) is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZCZ7M_lifM Polkamon]], a Polka consisting almost entirely of naming various Franchise/{{Pokemon}}. He wimps out part of the way through, merely saying there's "at least 127 more". Also he used Ditto twice, thought that [[StealthPun may be part of the joke]].

** "Don't Be a Jerk, It's Christmas" from "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" mainly lists the inconsiderate behaviors you shouldn't do around Christmas.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[=SpongeBob's=] Last Stand" had the song "Give Jellyfish Fields a Chance", in which the majority of the lyrics is a list of random objects that rhyme. The objects don't really relate to anything or each other.

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* "A Whole Bunch of World" from the ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' movie, which lists all the states in the US in alphabetical order.
* All of the songs from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' except "The Healing Incantation" and "I See the Light" are like this: [[IWantSong "When Will My Life Begin"]] is about Rapunzel singing about all the things she will do in the tower (or outside, in the case of the TriumphantReprise), [[VillainSong "Mother Knows Best"]] is about [[BigBad Mother Gothel]] singing about all of the things that will "hurt" Rapunzel were she was to leave the tower, and [[CrowdSong "I've Got a Dream"]] is about all of the Snuggly Duckling thugs singing about all of the things they wanted to do besides acting like, um... thugs.

* "I Before E Except After C," in ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown,'' consisted largely of exceptions to that rule and how these exceptions work.

* "Playing With the Big Boys" from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' starts off with the two priests listing the names of various Egyptian deities, and later on in the song the list returns [[OminousLatinChanting as an ominous chant in the background.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'': The segment ''The Legend of Johnny Appleseed'' has "The Apple Song", in which Johnny's guardian angel convinces him to roam the land planting apple trees by rattling off the many things that apples make.
-->'''Johnny's Angel:''' There's, uh... ''Apple pickles, oh, so tasty / Apple tarts and apple pastry / Apple dumplings, not to mention...''
-->'''Johnny:''' ''Applesa'ce?''
-->'''Johnny's Angel:''' ''Yes! And there's apple fritters, light as thistle / And for folks to wet their whistle...''
-->'''Both:''' ''Tangy apple cider in a glass!''

* The title track to Journey's "Raised on Radio" LP.

* "Like a Boss" by The Lonely Island lists everything a boss does on a daily basis, including sexually harassing an employee, promoting synergy, attempting suicide, auto-fellatio, having sex with a fish, and bombing the Russians.

** "The Class of '57": A whimsical, sometimes bittersweet reflection of whatever happened to their high school classmates from the fall of 1972. Some of the classmates were hugely successful, others had just everyday Main Street success or became housewives, others fared not so well ... and one took his life.

* "1 Nacht Alleen" ("One Night Alone") by Dutch band Music/DoeMaar from their album ''Music/{{Virus}}'' lists several girls the protagonist had over the weeks and whom he doesn't want to see again: Sylvia, Jeanette, Natalie, Fien, Elsje, Truusje, Truus, Babette, Betsie, Sabine, Greet, Margreet, Marie, Marei, Angeline, Mies, Marjan, Marjo, Marilyn and Kleine Tine".

* Several in ''Series/HorribleHistories'', including a list of phrases coined by Shakespeare, a list of books by Charles Dickens, a list of inventions from the Victorian period, and a list of ancient Greek inventions.

** "Dogs" from ''Music/{{Animals}}''.

* "These Are the Things That Make a Man" in ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'' is a song that lists the chemicals that make up a man ("Iron enough to make a nail, water enough to drown a dog...") concluding with three [[InsubstantialIngredients intangibles]] (strength, time and love). This went on to become "The Making of a Man", Creator/TerryPratchett's favourite track on Music/SteeleyeSpan's ConceptAlbum based on the book.

** "How To Be a Country Star," from 1979, is a who's who listing of top country stars of the time, set in a tongue-in-cheek, not-meant-to-be-taken-seriously advice session on what is needed to be a good country singer.

** Music/{{Molly Hatchet}}'s "Gator Country" references a few artists and the states they come from in each verse, then the singer sings about how he prefers his home state of Florida (gator country). In order, they are: Music/LynyrdSkynyrd (Alabama [[note]]because of "Sweet Home Alabama"; the band is actually from Jacksonville... in Florida[[/note]]); CharlieDaniels (Tennessee); [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand Richard Betts]] (Georgia); ElvinBishop (Mississippi); the MarshallTuckerBand (state not mentioned, but they're from South Carolina); and finally TheOutlaws, fellows from Florida ("Tampa town, a mighty fine place to be").

* Music/MichaelJackson's "Why You Wanna Trip On Me?" from ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' is a list of things Michael thinks people should worry about more than his personal life.

* The third verse of the Arrogant Worms's "Don't Go Into Politics" is a rapid-fire list of deceased musicians.

-->But have you seen my records? Music/ThisHeat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, Music/TheGerms, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, {{Music/Aha}}, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Pere Ubu]], Dorothy Ashby, [[Music/PublicImageLtd PIL]], Fania All-Stars, The Bar-Kays, Music/TheHumanLeague, The Normal, Music/LouReed, Music/ScottWalker, Monks, Niagara, Music/JoyDivision, Laurent Garnier, The Creation, Music/SunRa, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc, Rammellzee, Music/EricBAndRakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force (just hit me!), Juan Atkins, Manuel Göttsching, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Music/{{Gil|ScottHeron}}! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Scott! Heron!]], The Slits, {{Music/Faust}}, Mantronix, Pharoah Sanders and The Fire Engines, The {{Music/Swans}}, The Music/SoftCell, [[BrokenRecord The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics]]