But how can Merriweather be so damn earnest with a three-line chorus about money?
In the two-line chorus, over a James Brown sample, Ice-T spits, contemptuously, "You played yourself / Yo, yo, you played yourself".
It did not seem the most likely candidate for a transfer to Broadway, home of the assembly-line chorus and extroverted show-stopper.
Still, it's a hardy soul who makes it all the way through, say, the version of She's So High that consists of the two-line chorus repeated in a strangulated yodel for 11 minutes, punctuated by slap bass, or the three versions of Red Necks, a grindingly unfunny joke country track from the CD single of End of the Century.
In these cases, the rhyme scheme is often AAB (see above) or ABAC (where the two-line chorus occupies the second and fourth lines, B and C, of each verse).
Beginning (four or five lines), bridge to chorus (usually one or two lines), Chorus (four or five lines), Middle (three or four lines), Chorus (four or five lines), Bridge (three or four lines), Chorus (four or five lines), ending (optional, two or three lines).
Clearly write and separate every line, verse, chorus (hook), bridge, and title.
Now, the first set of workers, 13 of them, was lined up with a chorus line of grooms holding each of their shanks.
A closed circuit of straight rhyming lines, the chorus is the biggest culprit in this deception.
Hundreds of techies have been watching the Ebay sniping, using forums like Slashdot.org to comment on the action like an on-line Greek chorus.
Mr. Miller's conversational vocal lines, stormy choruses and chugging rhythms suggested lessons absorbed from Philip Glass and Mr. Adams.
