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Songs which feature words made up strictly for the purposes of the song.

Made Up Words in Songs Lyrics, C

Performer		Song Title		Made Up Words		Comments & Submittor Name
Carol Channing		Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friends		Louses		Thanks to English's being crazy, the correct plural of 'louse' is 'lice,' but it has to be sung like this to rhyme with the correct plural 'spouses.' - Rick O'Shea
The Carpenters		Yesterday Once More		Sha-la-la-la, wo-o-wo-o, shing-a-ling-a-ling		These lyrics would be sung in the 50s, when The Carpenters were both little children. - Francis A. Sissy
Carrie Underwood		Unapologize		unapologize		"Unapologizing" is an established word, but "unapologize" was made up for this song. - Yvette Bristle
Cast of 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'		Welcome Christmas		Fah-who-for-aze, Dah-who-dor-aze		Those words (however many words that is) seem surely to be made up just for the song. They must be intended to be words in the language of the "Whos". - Lucinda Blair
Cast of 'Mary Poppins'		Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious		Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious		'Nough said! - Lucinda Blair
Cast of 'Song Of The South'		Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah		Satisfactual		It's the truth, it's actual. Everything is satisfactual. [What does "satisfactual" mean? Satisfying + factual, perhaps?] - American Idle
Cast of Book of Mormon		Hasa Diga Eebowai		Hasa Diga Eebowai		It's said in the musical to mean "f**k you, God", but Matt and Trey admit they just came up with a foreign-sounding phrase. - Amanda
Chairlift		Amanaemonesia		Amanaemonesia		Lead singer Caroline Polachek says it's "a made-up word, made from combining a bunch of other different words. It means everything it sounds like." - Sejica
Chambers Brothers		Time Has Come Today		Psychedelicized		Self-explanatory - hamburger456
Chet Atkins		Teensville		Teensville		- Loree Dare
Chicago		Saturday in the Park		varreh, issey		This is supposed to be in the Italian line of the song, but this part was improvised. - Paul Warren
Chords		Life Could be a Dream		Sh-Boom		This song is considered the first Doo-Wop song, of course with the scatting of "Sh-Boom". - Paul Warren
Clint Holmes		Shiddle-Ee-Dee		shiddle-ee-dee		This song was a hit in 1973. - Yvette Bristle
Colbie Caillat		Brighter Than The Sun		shika-shika		"Everything is like a white out, 'cause we shika-shika a shine down." - Spraychel Spray
Con Funk Shun		ConFunkShunizeYa		ConFunkShunizeYa		This song was a hit in 1978. - Yvette Bristle
Conya Doss		Those Wur De Dayz		wur, de, dayz		- Loree Dare
Corky and the Juice Pigs		I'm the Only Gay Eskimo		Nukflukchukbuk		Well, me and Nukflukchukbuk, we both like blubber - Leopard Seal
Cradle of Filth		Nymphetamine		Nymphetamine		Dani sings " Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine. My Nymphetamine girl. Wracked with my charm I'm circled like prey back in the forest..... " Is Nymphetamine a real word? Too me it sounds like a sex drug because usually a 'Nymph' is some addicted/loves sex and 'Phetamine' refers to drugs. i.e Amphetamine etc. Ohwell... - Lord Abortion
The Crystals		Da Doo Ron Ron		Da Doo Ron Ron		"I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still, Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron." What's that supposed to mean? - Glenn

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