text: Yo, check it out, here's the lowdown
  On the intelligibility of them spondees, let me break it down
  We had 36 CID spondees, no joke
  Played 'em on tape, see how they spoke
  
  We had three groups of folks, let me tell you the deal
  Normal hearing cats, flat and sloping loss, that's real
  Fifteen in each, we put 'em to the test
  To see how these spondees performed, who's the best
  
  Now, as a group, these spondees weren't the same
  In intelligibility, they played a different game
  Some groups could understand 'em, others had a hard time
  But there was one group that stood out, so sublime
  
  The Ss with sloping loss, they had the upper hand
  Identified those spondees at a higher SL, it was grand
  Significantly higher, I gotta emphasize that
  P less than 0.05, stats don't lie, that's a fact
  
  So we made a list, just 14 in total
  Spondees with relative intelligibility we could hold
  Within a 5-db range, that's what we found
  For clinical use with them Ss, spread the sound
  
  That's the scoop, the results are in
  Intelligibility of them spondees, now we begin
  To understand how they work, who they're for
  With this info, we can open up more doors