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Made Up Words in Songs Lyrics, R

Performer		Song Title		Made Up Words		Comments & Submittor Name
Rammstein		B********		Bückstabü		Accoring to guitarist Richard Kruspe; it means whatever the listener wants it to mean. - Jay
Ramsey Lewis And Earth, Wind & Fire		Hot Dawgit		dawgit		- Loree Dare
Ray Parker, Jr.		Ghostbusters		ghostbusters		Song from the film of the same name. - Yvette Bristle
Ray Stevens		Gitarzan		Gitarzan, drunky		The lyrics include: "Well, they got a pet monkey, he likes to get drunky" - Candy Welty
Red Hot Chili Peppers		Warlocks		Rockapotamus		What's a rockapotamus? - Richard Smailes
Red Hot Chili Peppers		Deep Kick		brothersbloodcomradespartnerfamilycuzz		The brothersbloodcomradespartnerfamilycuzz was impenetrable - RevengeFromMars YouTube
The Red Hot Chili Peppers		Californication		Californication		What's californication? - dxman
Red Hot Chili Peppers		Funky Monks		doobley		"more rockin' more rockin' now doobley do" I guess it's just a nonsense word? - RevengeFromMars YouTube
Red Hot Chili Peppers		Coffee Shop		jooze		I guess they wanted to rhyme with "muse" and didn't like the other choices? - RevengeFromMars YouTube
Red Hot Chili Peppers		If You Have To Ask		freakette		Obviously the female version of "freak". - RevengeFromMars YouTube
Red Hot Chili Peppers		Mellowship Slinky in B Major		mellowship		Bonus points for putting the made-up word in the song title! - RevengeFromMars YouTube
Relient K		Gibberish		http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Relient-K/Gibberish.html		most of the song is made up words...too many to list in that small space - Aaron
Relient K		12 days of Christmas		Evif nedlog sngir		Its Five golden rings backwards!! - Emily
REO Speedwagon		Time for Me to Fly		Intoleration		Ok I love this song as the essential break up anthem, but honestly, intoleration? You guys could do better than that! - PastTiger
Rick Derringer		Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo		Hoochie koo		"Rock and roll, hoochie koo, Lordy mama, light my fuse!" Probably a shortened form of "hoochie coochie," also made up. - Martha Hankins
Rihanna		Shut Up and Drive		'Splode		"My engine's ready to explode, 'splode, 'splode" just to rhyme with "go, go, go"... come on, that sounds like hick-speech ('Ey Jimmy, y'all ain't 'sploded that squirrel yet, righ'?) - Alex
Rihanna		Disturbia		Disturbia		Lyrics: Disturbia, ain't used to what you like. Disturbia, disturbia, disturbia. - Andrea Greenleaf
Rip Slyme		Funkastic		Funkastic		I believe it's a combo of "funk" and "fantastic". - Neil
Rise Against		Gethsamane		Gethsamane		Gethsemane is a word. but Gethsamane is not - Franka
The Rivingtons		Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow		papa-oom-mow-mow		- Loree Dare
Robbie Williams		Keep On		Wing chang with the ching ching ting tong's tong ting, Dingadingdongadongadong... etc.		XDXDXD this song is so "Wu tang with the bling bling"!!!! XDXD - Lintufriikki
Roger Miller		Do-Wacka-Do		Do-wacka-do		"I hear tell you're doing well, good things have come to you. I wish I had your happiness, and you had a do-wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do." Miller put these nonsense syllables in the song to represent something to replace the good things his friend had. - Martha Hankins
Roger Miller		Dang Me		syrple		The line is "Sugar is sweet, and so is maple syrple". He was forcing a rhyme with "purple" in the previous line. I guess "syrple" means "syrup", but who knows for sure? - Stephanie Craddock
Rolling Stones		Shattered		Shadoobie		"Shattered, Shadoobie, Shattered". Just one of those words Mick Jagger made up while he was pretending to be black. - Rock Maninoff
Ronnie Self		Bop-A-Lena		bop-a-lena		- Loree Dare
Roy Orbison		Ooby Dooby		Ooby dooby		"When you do the ooby dooby, I just gotta be near." A single from early in Orbison's career, it apparently is the name of a dance. - Martha Hankins

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