Cryptic
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Cryptic Background Reference: Willy Wonka explains that in their homeland the Oompa-Loompas were at the mercy of "hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles".
- Black Sabbath had a lot of these on their early albums before their lyrics started becoming more and more cryptic: "Wicked World", "War Pigs" (from Paranoid), "Electric Funeral", "Hand of Doom" and "Children of the Grave" all come to mind.
Source: Protest Song
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