History Main / ChorusOnlySong

** Similarly, "The Star Spangled Banner" has 4 verses, but everyone just knows the first.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koh-Cn2PSWQ Shout! Shout!]] [[Music/TearsForFears Let it all out! These are the things I can do without! Come on! I'm talking to you, come on!]]

* Most people don't get the description of the ''blue world'' mentioned in the song "Blue" by Music/Eiffel65. The multiple [[{{Mondegreen}} mondegreens]] created from the chorus are most remembered.

* Hey, you know Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll (Part 2)"? You know, The Hey Song? Yeah, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDvG_BddYjc there's also a Part 1]]. Our European tropers are already going "WELL, NO SHIT" but they need to remember, only Part 2 got popular over in America!

* O-Zone's "Dragostea din tei" (a.k.a. "[[RefrainFromAssuming Numa Numa]]") is this for some people.

* Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" is often only known by its chorus, or really just the "I'm not sick but I'm not well" bit.

* "Fancy" is an Music/IggyAzalea song ''featuring'' Music/CharliXCX, but the part people remember best is the poppy chorus by Charli XCX.

* "Good Time" by Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen. The line "It's always a good time" is also used nearly EVERY SINGLE VERSE.

** "99 Luftballons" by Music/{{Nena}}outside of "something, something, Captain Kirk" most Yanks only know "99 luftballons, blahblahblahblahblahblahblah, 99 luftballons".

** "99 Luftballoons" outside of "something, something, Captain Kirk" most Yanks only know "99 luftballoons, blahblahblahblahblahblahblah, 99 luftballoons".

* "When You Wish Upon a Star", as heard in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''.

** "Macarena" by Los Del Rio, with many Americans only knowing the "HEEEEEEEEEEEY Macarena!" bit. Ironically, the entire chorus is in Spanish, whereas the verses are in English and so should be more well known to Americans.

* In the ''Series/StarTrek'' episode ''Plato's Stepchildren'', the song "Maiden Wine" sung by Leonard Nimoy actually has two verses. It is usually cut for length on television. This song also suffers from IAmNotShazam since the name of the song is usually called "Bitter Dregs" and the mistaken assumption that those words are the chorus of the song but they only appear in the first verse.

** Said sixth verse was also sung in ''FanWorks/PlayTheGame'' in the episode "Dedicated To...". "''Mijn schild ende betrouwen zjit gij O God [[{{Pun}} mijn heer...]]''" [[note]] "Mijnheer" is what [[=OGiNiM=]] calls Nimja. [[/note]]

* "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am"; largely the fault of Herman's Hermits, who only sung the chorus in their (very popular) version. "Second verse, same as the first!" Apparently they performed only the chorus because that was the only part they knew. So it could have been a ChorusOnlySong before they recorded it.

* [[Music/{{REM}} "It's the End of the World as We Know It"]] narrowly avoids because people get one or other line of the verses (mostly "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein LEONARD BERNSTEIN!]]").

* War! Huh! Good god! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Everyone knows that, barely anyone knows the verses.

* Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land", which could be why [[MisaimedFandom everyone believes it to be such a patriotic song]].
** It's a protest song - it's the essence of patriotism!
** TO make things worse, when the song's verses are included, they are often limited to the first three--while the protest elements are present, they become more clear in the two later verses (the very last one ending in "Is this land made for you and me?").
* "Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee has this taken to an extreme - people only know the chorus, and they do so as [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein "something something Gasolina"]] repeated 8 times.

* Assuming they've never heard the ClusterFBomb bridge to Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "Down with the Sickness", most people will probably know "Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness! Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness! Get up! C'mon, get down with the sickness!". They may even forgo the rest for the title alone.
** Well, they know that part and "a-wah-ah-ah-ah."

* "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls, to most. (Blame Disney)

* "The Bad Touch" by The Bloodhound Gang: "You and me, baby ain't nothin' but mammals/So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel."

* Not uncommon in America with hit songs recorded in other languages.

** "Gangnam Style" by Music/{{PSY}}. The only words people know are "Oppan Gangnam Style" and "HEEEEY!!! Sexy LADY!" because everything else is in Korean. Also applies to "Gentleman" to a lesser extent.

* "Remember" from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is only a chorus song in the cartoon itself. We can hear mumbled versions of other verses however we only ever clearly hear are from the chorus. Years later the full song was leaked online though. [[LyricalDissonance It's not quite as cheery as it seems]].

* The chorus of "Same Love" by Music/{{Mackelmore}} is this compared to the rest of the song (which is mainly spoken). It's actually from a separate song called "She Keeps Me Warm" by Music/MaryLambert.

* Thanks to [[MemeticMutation the memes]], most people can't get other verses of the song "Hide and Seek" by Music/ImogenHeap rather than the part "[[{{Narm}} hmm what you saaaay...]]".

* Prince's [[{{Film/Batman}} "Batdance"]] has ''got'' to qualify. While it is admittedly far more of a [[StupidStatementDanceMix dance number]] than a "sing-along" song, most people are unlikely to remember more than about 10 percent of the lyrics at best (assuming they can remember it at all). It doesn't help that the lyrics come faster and faster as the song rolls on, until by the finale they are all being uttered simultaneously. In fact, the one line (besides the chorus) that ''everyone'' seems to remember is the very first one ("Oh, I got a live one here!") - and that's only because radio deejays loved to play it as an out-of-context gag soundbite for years afterward.