The additional songs, from the catalog of American rural music, are "some of my favorite songs," Cooder says, "ones I thought would be suitable for three-part harmony, with nice choruses, so they weren't just verse statements".
In a free-verse statement posted at the band's Web site, the frontman Johnny Rotten wrote: Music can be great, when done by the great.
The absence of a Qur'anic verse or authentic statement from the Prophet on weed, for example, allowed for a number of possibilities.
After sites like USA Today, Village Voice and LA Weekly posted stories linking Pacquiao to the Bible verse, Pacquiao released a statement claiming that he never quoted Leviticus.
Brett Favre's Press Statement, in Blank Verse, on Coming Out of Retirement, Inspired by Robert Frost I hunt and fish and sleep then push repeat.
Echoes of nursery rhyme or comic verse vie with grave pentameter statements.
The interior ministry statement began with verses from the Qur'an justifying the use of execution, and state television showed footage of the aftermath of al-Qaida attacks in the last decade.
After he stated the problem, in breathy long tones, he sang a kind of mission statement, a courage-building verse.
An interest in the minor figures in Jane Austen's novels is more likely to interest an admissions tutor than a statement written in blank verse, he says.
"AT&T customers in some of our markets are experiencing issues with U-verse service," he said in a statement.
Steve Watts, chair of the Cambridge admissions forum, says he's never happy to receive personal statements in badly written verse.
