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There's actually a similar rock song from Finland recorded in 1974: https://youtu.be/yGCviZAdxeY

In this case, the lyrics are actual English words, but the verses they form are just total gibberish: https://genius.com/Hurriganes-get-on-lyrics

It's a pretty sweet rock piece and really famous in Finland. The recording was supposed to be a 'demo' and the gibberish lyrics replaced later with actual lyrics by someone who could English (the drummer/singer here, Remu Aaltonen, could not). But the band thought the demo good enough and decided to release it anyway on their next album. The rest is Finnish rock history.

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"Well, old Alabama, just a sweet Carolina Just a-rockin' and rollin' may leave town Got to be a scoogie, lay on my boogie Let me hear you say you got my hole around"

LOL

This reminds me of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Especially if you replaced Alabama and Carolina with California.

Haha nice Markov Chain going there

To be fair, this appears to make about as much sense as your average rock song. :P Even something as venerable as Stairway To Heaven has lyrics that are, at best, allegorical poetry, or, at worst, sweet-sounding gibberish.

Maybe they're total gibberish, but just for the sake of comparison, I knew a woman who sang in a band that performed "Come Together" (from the Beatles). I remember her saying, "Don't distract me when I'm singing this, because the words make no sense, and I can't remember them if I don't concentrate."

Yeah The Beatles were one of those bands where their songs are so personal that many of their lyrics only make sense to them and may as well be total nonsense to everyone else. I fully believe they're as popular as they are partly because everyone who listens is trying to find their decoded meaning.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/i-... also off topic: on William F. Buckley and his understanding of the spanish language: for context start at minute 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxzQSheCkc

I don't know, these lyrics make about as much sense to me as most songs written by English speakers.

Here's a great one from Estonia, featured in this very weird Soviet-era movie https://youtu.be/jpW9Fcrw5kE

Nothing beats the Spanish dictator Franco speaking English

https://youtu.be/EBS_n2lgYUI

Maybe 'el principe gitano' does, he is a Spanish folk music singer. He liked Elvis Presley's 'In the ghetto' very much but didn't know a word of English. He sang it anyway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGSgAfJQsic

>He liked Elvis Presley's 'In the ghetto' very much but didn't know a word of English. He sang it anyway...

Also see: many, many Korean and Japanese pop songs....

Not even François Hollance (ex-french president)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPb4MHIvbP0

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