The Decemberists made a sharp turn from their quirky folky story-driven music and did a song called "Once In My Life" that for 95% of the song tries to use only two lines: "For once in my life, can just something go right? I've been waiting all my life."

Their goal was to build an entire song using just those lines and use different music and vocal arrangements around it to make a complete song. I think it works really well, personally, but it's not for everyone.

Anyways, at the very end of the song he throws in the lines "Lay us down, Beside the river, Face down, Beside the river" which is the same line, sung basically the same way, as in the end of Yo La Tengo's "Barnaby Hardly Working"

Edit: reading through other comments I realize I didn't understand the assignment lol, I'll leave this up even though this wasn't what you were asking for.