What is the strangest word you've heard used in a rock song?

“Oster”. The word is actually in Morse Code in the song “Golf Girl” by Caravan. It means “Armpit” in an ancient Celt language. (In Scottish the word is “Oxter” but in the song it’s written as “Oster”)

Is rammalammadingdong a word?

^If you have to ask, we’ll say yes.

“Coagulating,” used in Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction.” The word’s used to rhyme with “contemplating,”

Pompatus.

a made up word by Steve Miller, from The Joker

”‘Cause I speak of the pompatus of love…”

Just a correction on my answer. The word in Golf Girl is actually “OSTERS” (plural). If you’re curious the Morse code is at 1:27. The lyric is “On the golf course, we talk in Morse” and then it goes into the Morse code.

Strangeness is subjective. The strangest things I hear in songs tend to be phrases that make no sense to me, which are many, such as “Have you heard that the bird’s the word?”

It’s hard for individual words to seem especially strange to me all by themselves.

“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”. Iron Butterfly

Cumbersome by Seven Mary Three.

Not that the word “cumbersome” is unusual, but it’s not a typical word you’d hear in a song.

Check it out, it might be a familiar song, if you don’t think you know it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EiW_D_MX8

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was in Mary Poppins. Youth rock song.

Colitas (in Hotel California).
Even the Eagles disagree on what it means.

Obla dee obla dah
Beetles
Yes, more than one word.

Focus

Joladadijoladadijoladadijoladadi
Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh
Joladadijoladadijoladadijoladadi
Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh
Oooooh-oooooh-oooooh-oooooh

“Ah bowakawa, pousse pousse” John Lennon

”Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”

I only thought of one and it’s already on here, but I must say reading this has been fun and funny.

Barabajagal is an odd one.

and Mahna Mahna

An international hit…