Six Word Story Lyrics

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  • Type out all lyrics, even repeating song parts like the chorus
  • Lyrics should be broken down into individual lines
  • Use section headers above different song parts like [Verse], [Chorus], etc.
  • Use italics (<i>lyric</i>) and bold (<b>lyric</b>) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part
  • If you don’t understand a lyric, use [?]

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There’s been a craze in the literary world over the six word story.

Hemingway receives credit as the inventor of the six word story. Supposedly, fellow writers challenged him to write a story in only six words. Subsequently, he produced, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” The short phrase, though lacking many elements of traditional stories, did, in a sense, possess a beginning, middle, and end. Hemingway, according to legend, won the bet.

Of course, the accuracy of this fabled tale is dubious. Indeed, the tale doesn’t go back much farther than the 1990s. Quote Investigator recently uncovered versions of the story predating Hemingway’s career and based on real newspaper ads.

Regardless, the six words have inspired a literary movement based on exploring how much can be said with very little.

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