One comes into mind quick is "Is There Anybody Out There?" which is just 5 words throughout song. Another song's short lyrics is Chris Botti song "Ever Since We Met" has only 2 4-liner chorus.
Maybe not the fewest words, but "Dan Blocker" by Gurf Morlix hasn't many, and they're great ones. On his album Toad of Titicaca, Gurf was Lucinda Williams' original guitarist/bandleader/producer.
Many, many years ago Mad Magazine included a floppy 45 RPM recording of a song where the music had frequently stop-time gaps, into which they injected the sound of belching. Nothing else was vocalized. Sometimes just one belch, sometimes three or four belches. I'll leave it up to the judges to decide whether a belch qualifies as a word, an aborted word, or no word at all.
mmm....a belch might qualify as a 'word' only if modulated into a word. I knew a guy back in college who was quite proficient at that. Gave him something to do with 'beer backup', the former very fond of, the latter creator of prodigious quantity and length of 'degassing '. Could literally speak sentences, albeit short and curt.
Maggot Brain...
...and the hunt for outrageous band names rolls on...
I can't wait for the retirement home...geezers arguing over which band was better Back When....
"Maggot Brain!" "No, you idiot! The Scabs!" (Lashing each other with I-Phone earpiece wires...)
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