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Made Up Words in Songs Lyrics, T

Performer		Song Title		Made Up Words		Comments & Submittor Name
Tears for Fears		Mad World		Halargian		The final line "Halargian world, mad world" references a studio in-joke: "Halarge" was a fictional planet invented by a couple of guest musicians on Tears for Fears' first album. In Gary Jules' well-known cover, this line is changed to "enlarging your world, mad world." - Sejica
Tears for Fears		Lord of Karma		pain-o-rama		Lyrics: "Lord of Karma, your mystic pain-o-rama, one good reason keep my feet on the ground." - Martha Hankins
Ted Nugent		Wango Tango		Wango, and any other words he makes up live		"Wango Tango" are the only set words in the song. It changes every time he performs it, but what is a wango? - person number infinity
Temptations		Ball of Confusion		Great Googamooga		Why has this classic song not yet been mentioned? - Russell
Ten Years After		Skooby-Oobly-Doobob		skooby-oobly-doobob		- Loree Dare
Tenacious D		Beelzeboss		Hey anti-Christ-er, Beelzeboss		The song has combined the words "Beelzebub" and "boss". Would seem it means a boss from hell. - Lucinda Blair
Tenacious D		The Road		Boosh		"Snackin' on a tasty Boosh, right after the show!" Apparently "bush" as in pubic hair, but it's The D, so who knows? - Woop Woop
Theme Songs		The Addams Family		They're all together ooky		Is that even a word, "ooky"? - Isac
Therapy?		Screamager		Screamager		The title is a made up word, even though, as noted in another post, it isn't part of the lyrics. - Karen Smith
They Might Be Giants		Don't Let's Start		Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa		"Thanks for stoppin' by!" - Mickey D.
They Might Be Giants, Mike Doughty, Elegant Too		Mr.Xcitement		hubba, blubba, landem, clamdem, glands, staben, hoobalicious, aden, mooky, Flansy, trooky,		- RayGun Sharpadero
Thin Lizzy		Romeo & The Lonely Girl		Own-ee-oh		Sitting out on his own-ee-oh. - Mickey D.
The Three Playmates		Sugah Wooga		sugah, wooga		- Loree Dare
Thurl Ravenscroft		You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch		Wasty		Taken from the line "You're a nasty, wasty, skunk." Considering that Dr. Seuss was famous for making up words, it's rather surprising that this is the only one in the song. - Psycho Librarian
TLC		Unpretty		Unpretty		Well... It's not in any Dictionary I've seen. - Elizabeth
Tobin Mathews & Co.		Ruby Duby Du		duby, du		- Loree Dare
Toby Keith & Jimmy Buffett		Too Drunk To Karaoke		Drunkativity		Lyrics: "Just prove that theory of drunkativity". It's a word play on Einstein's "theory of relativity". Goofy but it's a funny song. - Edward
Tom & Jerry (TV)		The Itch		Dirtsy		Dirty doesn't rhyme with curtsy. - JohnHowarth
Tom Waits		Swordfishtrombone		swordfishtrombone		"He went and took up with a Salvation Army band girl Who played dirty water on a swordfishtrombone." -- are the lyrics that have the title word in context. Neither the word nor its overall context in the song make its meaning very self-explanatory. I googled the word and tried to look up a definition, to make sure it wasn't a pre-existing word. I found nothing to suggest it to be anything other than the song's invention. It seems an obscure, not clearly definable term, just a juxtaposition of two dissimilar entities. - Natalie Lundgren
Tommy James		Boo, Boo, Don't 'Cha Be Blue		'cha		- Loree Dare
Tommy James		Out of the Blue		Ungroovy		Everything was so ungroovy. - JD
Toni Braxton		Un-Break My Heart		un-break, un-cry		- redsimba
Trace Adkins		Honky Tonk Badonkadonk		Badonkadonk		I can't find the word "Badonkadonk" in any dictionary, and have never heard of it except in this song. So I assume it is made up. And I still don't know what it might mean. - Lucinda Blair
Tracey Dey		Ska-Doo-Dee-Yah		ska-doo-dee-yah		- Loree Dare
Travis Wammack		(Shu-Doo-Pa-Poo-Poop) Love Being Your Fool		shu-doo-pa-poo-poop		- Loree Dare
Trent Tomlinson		Drunker Than Me		Drunker		Self Explanatory - PinmonkeyJunkie

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