Earworms

[Patco]

Gimme a break
Gimme a break
Break me off a piece of that KitKat bar

The only cure I've heard that works is the Good Ship Lollipop by Shirley Temple, but which is worse?!?

Sometimes I'm just counting my paces in my head (either 1,2,3,4 or 1,2,1,2,1,2) and sometimes even counting them with my thumb on my fingers. I don't use trekking poles. I'm one of those 5% twisted ones mentioned in the other poll. (he he, AT Trekking Polls rock! Get it?)

[Patco]

Gimme a break
Gimme a break
Break me off a piece of that KitKat bar

OK, a new earworm has come on the scene via the Wiggles:

"Hot potato hot potato, hot potato hot potato, hot potato hot potato, potato, potato potato potato."

Sorry I had to stick that in your heads.

[snuffleupagus]

I gave a girl
A ride in my wagon
She got in
And she took control
She was tired
As her mind was draggin'
I said get some sleep
And dream of rock and roll

Cause like a picture she was layin' there.
Moon-light dancin' off her hair.
She woke up and took me by the hand.
She's gonna love me in my chevy van and that's alright with me.

I've been fighting that earworm for two weeks now, and can't even imagine where I heard it.

[SorFinger]

OK, a new earworm has come on the scene via the Wiggles:

"Hot potato hot potato, hot potato hot potato, hot potato hot potato, potato, potato potato potato."

Sorry I had to stick that in your heads.

HAHAHAHA!!!! I thought I was the only one plagued by the Wiggles! Do you do the dance with it, too? I'm constantly getting my 3-year-old's music stuck in my head. The Wiggles & Bear in the Big Blue House (now that's one cool bear!) are the big ones.

[steve hiker]

I had this very pleasant, mild-mannered earworm take up residence in my head during this week's section hike: "Julia," The Beatles (Lennon?)

Definitely not your typical aggressive, hostile earworm.

[steve hiker]

Late February on the AT, south of Newfound Gap
The trees are bare, snow is falling from the sky
All is at rest, all at peace .....

This very peaceful earworm takes up residence in my mind
__________

"Julia," by The Beatles:

Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you, julia

Julia, julia, oceanchild, calls me
So I sing a song of love, julia
Julia, seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me
So I sing a song of love, julia

Her hair of floating sky is shimmering, glimmering,
In the sun

Julia, julia, morning moon, touch me
So I sing a song of love, julia

When I cannot sing my heart
I can only speak my mind, julia

Julia, sleeping sand, silent cloud, touch me
So I sing a song of love, julia
Hum hum hum hum...calls me
So I sing a song of love for julia, julia, julia

[tribes]

After an 11 am start on the trail, this one got stuck in my head on a fourteen mile deathmarch racing the 5:00 sunset thru the snow of NJ in late January. For almost six hours it was just "stuck" there like a broken record.

High Speed, by Coldplay

Can anybody fly this thing?
Before my head explodes,
Or my head starts to ring.

We’ve been living life inside a bubble,
We’ve been living life inside a bubble.

Confidence in you,
Is confidence in me,
Is confidence in high speed.

Can anybody stop this thing?
Before my head explodes,
Or my head starts to ring.

We’ve been living life inside a bubble,
We’ve been living life inside a bubble.

Confidence in you,
Is confidence in me,
Is confidence in high speed.

In high speed,
High speed.

High speed you on,
High speed you on,
High speed you on ,
High speed you on.

[Toofarafoot]

"I wish I was an Oscar Mayer weiner,
That is what I'd truly like to be.
Cause if I was an Oscar Mayer weiner,
Everyone would be in love with me."

So annoying!

Toofarafoot

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen".... Thoreau

[Dobber]

Yes, I have some grey in my hair...Spent many an evening trying to figure out those lyrics back in the day......Excellent choice of album back when vinyl was king!....

While not a bad earworm, a poem by Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues comes to mind as I start laboring uphill. The title is Late Lament and it goes...

Late Lament
by
Graeme Edge

Breathe Deep, the gathering gloom.
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people sit back and lament,
Another day's useless energies spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
Lonely man cries for Love and has none.
A new mother picks up and suckles her son.
Senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold Hearted Orb which rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight,
Red is Grey and Yellow, White
And yet, we decide which is right
And which is an illusion.


I think I place the emphasis on breathe deep and I would've included "and stop often."
Hikerhead, I can appreciate your earworm also. Good choice for you and I.

[jojo0425]

Thanks,
I was beginning to think that there was another dangerous peril out in there them woods that I had to get innoculated against. Glad to hear it's only a mental thing.

[jigsaw]

for me its always been jimmy buffet cheeseburgers in paradise.
but know thanks to patco its those damn wiggles id like to get my hands on that maury hehehhe

[Dances with Mice]

Picture this: It's a beautiful day, blue skies, cool temps, soft breezes, birds are chirping and fragrant wildflowers line the trail. But what does my internal conversation sound like?

Way down below there's a half a million people
--STOP IT!--
Somewhere there's a church with a big tall steeple
--1,2,3, I'LL COUNT MY FOOTSTEPS INSTEAD--
Inside the church, there's an altar filled with flowers
--HUSH. SHUSH. QUIET. STOP IT!--
Wedding bells are ringin' and they should've been ours
--SHUT UP!--
That's why I'm so lonely, my dream is gone above
--PLEASE?--
High on a mountain of love
--NO, NOT THE NEXT PART! SKIP THE NEXT PART--
Do doo do doo doo
--ARGH!--
High on a mountain of love.
--MAYBE I'LL GET LUCKY AND MEET A HUNTER AND ASK HIM TO SHOOT ME--

[Doctari]

Thanks,
I was beginning to think that there was another dangerous peril out in there them woods that I had to get innoculated against. Glad to hear it's only a mental thing.

ONLY A MENTAL THING?!?!?!?

JoJo has obviously not spent 3 days in the woods with a song on an endless loop, a song from your most hated group/singer, inside your head. Over & over & over & over & over & over & over.

It's actually not that bad, , , , most of the time. But I did have to "bust your chops" for that


Doctari.

[pjohnson]

Hey, I may be showing my age, but....

Green Acres is the place to be
farm living is the life for me

Land spreading out so far and wide
Keep Manhatten and give me that country side.

If you're over forty this one is a sticker. One time when a bunch of us at work were taking a promotional exam (civil servce), there was one particular fellow (brown noser) that no one really liked, so...about one minute before we had to take the four hour exam I went over to him and asked, "Do you ever get a song stuck in your head and you can't get rid of it no matter what?" He just looked at me, and I could tell he knew what was coming...Green Acres. Well, the chosen one flunked the test, the radicals all excelled, and no one got promoted. But, we still sing it and laugh during choir practice.

Oh-by-the-way, whistling the song "If I only had Heart" from the Wizzard of Oz last longer than the Energizer Bunny!

[grrickar]

"The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path"

[The Scribe]

John Mellencamp

Rooty toot toot
Rooty toot toot
We had it made in the shade
Like a bell through the hoop
Spinnin´ and tumblin´ inside this
Hoola hoop
Livin´ and learnin´
rooty toot toot


And coming down from Tuckerman two weeks ago:

"Every Step I take"

apologies to Sting.

[MDSHiker]

Good thread. I've heard several of my hiking buddies say that the last song they hear before hitting the trail always gets stuck in their head. That tends to be true for me too. So...make sure the last song you hear is a good one!!

[Texas Dreamer]

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
Everybody's nerves,
Everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
And this is how it goes..

baum, baum, baum,

I know a song that......



ad finitum

[Lobo]

The ultimate Trail song by Roy Rodgers & his wife Dale Evans (and maybe his horse "Trigger").

Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride (hike) the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.

Happy trails to you until we meet again.
Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together?
Just sing a song and bring sunny weather.
Happy trails to you 'till we meet again.
Happy trails to you until we meet again.

[Kerosene]

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
Everybody's nerves,
Everybody's nerves...

I'm pretty sure that I would go crazy if this was the song I couldn't get out of my head!