My comments mainly concerned writing skills, not vocal ability, popularity, or whether average people know all the words. In my experience as a songwriter, many people are likely to remember a melody, a chorus, a tag line or a hook, maybe a riff. Witness my own self, a wordsmith, who had never seen the words to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" until yesterday -- but I would have recognized the song from the melody, a few words and the singing.

No contests -- just judgments.

Sharyn