song analysis from six songs

Don't Worry Be Happy- Bobby McFerrin

The song "Don't Worry Be Happy" was released by Bobby McFerrin in 1988. This song was on the Billboard Hot 100 as the first a cappella song to reach number one for two weeks. "Don't Worry Be Happy" won Grammy Awards for "Song of the Year," "Record of the Year," and "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance." The song was ranked number 31 on the VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80's. The saying "Don't Worry Be Happy" was taken from Meher Baba, who is an Indian spiritual master. The "instruments" in this song are not real instruments; the instruments are overdubbed voice parts and other sounds made by McFerrin.
"Don't Worry Be Happy" has a lot of literary terms throughout the song. The first term I noticed was a hyperbole. The line "when you worry you make it double" is an exaggeration. I think that this is an exaggeration because I don't agree that worrying about something will make the situation twice as bad. There is a lot of examples of imagery in this song. "Somebody came and took your bed" is a great example of imagery because you can imagine someone coming in and evicting your house and taking everything you own. This song includes a little bit of humor. An example of humor in this song is when he says, "Here I give you my phone number, when you worry call me, I make you happy." I think this is funny because of his tone when he says it. It is also funny to me because the thought of a stranger giving their number to me to call them when I am sad is humorous. The mood in this song is very happy, which relates back to why the song is called, "Don't Worry Be Happy."