Quote Originally Posted by Xstr8guy View Post
Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan is the first list song I can think of. But he probably just 'borrowed' the idea from Woody Guthrie just like everything else he did in the early years.
Gotta love the WIKI! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterr...Homesick_Blues

Haha, I was right!
[The song] was, in fact, an extraordinary three-way amalgam of Jack Kerouac, the Guthrie/Pete Seeger song "Taking It Easy" ('mom was in the kitchen preparing to eat/sis was in the pantry looking for some yeast') and the riffed-up rock'n'roll poetry of [Chuck] Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business".
Another interesting tidbit...
In the November 2006 issue of the popular Dutch music magazine OOR, R.E.M.'s singer Michael Stipe admits to having written the lyrics to the bands 1988 single "It's the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine)" in the same (random-sounding) style as this song.