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Culprit The Misfits REPEAT OFFENDER!
Title Rat Fink
Year 1979
Written by Glenn Danzig
Submitted by Pad

As a general rule, good punk songs should be so short that there's not time to get through enough repeated choruses to warrant a truck driver's gear change. Try telling that to The Misfits, though – they get round the problem by making sure that the whole song is nothing but repeated choruses. The lyrics to this song are as follows (and I quote from their own liner notes):

F, I said F I
F I N, F I N K
Fink
FINK, fink, fink, fink, fink

R, I said R A
R A T, R A T T
Rat, R A T T F I N K

Rat fink, R A T T F I N K
Fink

Rat fink, yeah
Rat fink, R A T T F I N K

Rat fink, yeah
Rat fink

R A T T F I N K, R A T T F I N K, R A T T F I N K, Rat fink

Genius.

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