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Kerosene
10-30-2003, 12:29
Not to be confused with earwhigs, have you ever been plagued by an "earworm" for more than a few miles while hiking? An earworm is a song or snippet of music that runs through your head continuously and is typically difficult to consciously eliminate.
Personally, the rhythm of an uphill climb seems to trigger them. On the first day of my hike earlier this month, I kept having the sickly sweet strains of "The Christmas Song" from "The Grinch" running through my brain. However, after a few days I move from popular music earworms to surprisingly grandiose and inspiring self compositions that I only wish I could replicate when I get back home to my piano.
Here's a good article (http://www.msnbc.com/news/981181.asp) if you're interested in reading about some of the common earworms and a few half-baked techniques for how to eliminate them.
The jingle for Cox Communications Highspeed Internet.. Here are the words: "People in your life make all the difference.. The best of times are the times with your friends. In my life-- all my friends-- are with me 'till the end-- life is good when you got your friends."
Hope I've successfully transfered that little torture....
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't rain in Indianapples
In the summertime
There's no such thing as Mother Goose....................
Ankle Bone
10-30-2003, 16:48
With deepest apologies to Bob Seeger:
Now here I am
On the trail again
There I am
Up on the ridge
Here I go
Playing hiker again
There I go
Where’s the blaze…..
Bunchberry
10-30-2003, 16:59
I tend to get spoken phrases stuck in my head rather than songs. My grandfather served in the British Army in East Africa in WW2. He taught me a Swahili/English chant that he learned there:
Left, right, left
Malima tutapanda
Tambeni poli-poli
Malima tutapanda
(apologies to any Swahili speakers for my mangling of your language).
It translates as "Left, right, left, we will climb the mountain. Let us go slowly, we will climb the mountain."
I get it in my head a lot on mountain trails, and it's really hard to get rid of.
The other childhood hangover that won't let go is that when I'm tired on downhills, I find myself repeating, "Bend your knees" to myself, over and over. My mother's perennial advice on hilly hikes with us as children.
Although it can be irritating to have phrases stuck in my head, they're both good advice, so I suppose it could be worse.
Streamweaver
10-30-2003, 18:01
Ive always got some tune stuck in my head!! Most of the time its Some stupid song I heard from a passing car or something,heard it for a split second and its stuck in my head for days!! One song that pops into my head towards the end of a long day of hiking is,I cant remember who did it but it goes"Ive got one more silver dollar,but I aint gonna let em catch me ,no aint gonna let em catch the midnight rider"Thats an awsome song!! Usually the songs pop into my head according to my hiking pace at the moment,fast hiking =fast song etc Streamweaver
Early 70's Allman brothers / Gregg Allman
Sleepy the Arab
10-30-2003, 20:18
That infernal Tootsie Roll song. ("The world looks mighty good to me/ 'Cause Tootsie Rolls are all I see..." ad nauseum). I rather eat at the buffet in Fontana for the next year than have that stuck in my head again.
I also discovered that I knew a good portion of the lyrics to Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."
steve hiker
11-03-2003, 19:54
The night before I left for my Colorado trip in September, I was in Wal-Mart and this black woman was "singing" at the top of her voice over the store loudspeakers. Then for the first two days in Colorado, miles from the nearest town or Wal-Mart, that black woman was still yelling in my ear. Gross.
Hikerhead
11-03-2003, 20:30
Slow ride.......take it easy.....An oldie by Foghat I believe...
That seems to pop up in my head a lot.
Streamweaver
11-03-2003, 21:35
Yup !! Thats Foghat,another awsome song!! Streamweaver
steve hiker
11-08-2003, 15:57
One of the better earworms I've had on the trail is Follow Me by REM, about a nice cold can of Orange Crush:
Follow me, don't follow me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
Collar me, don't collar me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me
Follow me, don't follow me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
Collar me, don't collar me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me
(High on the roof, thin the blood,
another one climbs on the waves tonight,
comin' in, you're home)
"We'd circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and
centered on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and
our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all this here county
hell any county it's just like heaven here and I was remembering and I
was just in a different county and all then this whirlybird that I
headed for I had my goggles pulled off I knew it all I knew every back
road and every truck stop"
Follow me, don't follow me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
Collar me, don't collar me
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me
(High on the roof, thin the blood,
another one climbs on the waves tonight,
comin' in, you're home)
(High on the roof, thin the blood,
another one climbs on the waves tonight,
comin' in, you're home)
99.9% of the time it is a song I REALLY REALLY HATE! Last time I had it bad was for 3 (insert bad word here) days, no "cure" worked.
Admitedly, the "Cure" is sometimes worse than the "earworms".
A cure I (sometimes) use, from Sheri Lewis' play along:
This is the song that dosen't end
Yes it goes on and on my friend
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was.
And they'll continue singing it forever just because
This is the song that dosen't end
Yes it goes on and on my friend
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was.
And they'll continue singing it forever just because
This is the song that dosen't end
etc. :bse
Early 70's Allman brothers / Gregg Allman
It was from Gregg Allman first solo album from 1971...the song title:
[U] "Midnight Rider"
an excellent tune to have stuck in your head!
i'm never that fortunate....it's always some line from some stupid TV or radio jingle i just heard shuttling to the trailhead...darn!
Jaybird ;)
www.trailjournals.com/Jaybird
Jaybird: "It was from Gregg Allman first solo album from 1971...the song title: 'Midnight Rider' an excellent tune to have stuck in your head!"
Actually, from the Allman Brothers' second studio album, Idlewild South. The Allmans were serious hikers and ultralight pioneers.
Jaybird: "It was from Gregg Allman first solo album from 1971...the song title: 'Midnight Rider' an excellent tune to have stuck in your head!"
Actually, from the Allman Brothers' second studio album, Idlewild South. The Allmans were serious hikers and ultralight pioneers.
okay! okay! OKAY!.........so, IDLEWILD SOUTH was out first...& Gregg & Duane were happy & all the ALLMAN Bros. Band were alive & well @ that time....
but, the version most people remember (the one that got radio airplay & still does today)..is the GREGG ALLMAN solo version....very tasty!
His new CD is not bad either!
I still have all my vinyl...& wasnt aware that Gregg was a serious hiker.
hehehehehe :p
jaybird
www.trailjournals.com/Jaybird
Uncle Wayne
11-21-2003, 07:56
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." :D
Hikerhead, I can appreciate your earworm also. Good choice for you and I. :)
"It's a cool, cool moon out tonight
It's a cold, cold point on your knife
could i call myself a man if i
left by the morning light...
...I'd be forty miles from denver
and three days from my home
In that cool mountain air
On the Appalachian Trail
life is better there."
Yonder Mountain String Band
fingernails are pretty
fingernails are bright
all she wanted was
a mean old magic marker
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?)
:confused:
Gimme a break
Gimme a break
Break me off a piece of that KitKat bar
:confused:
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
02-17-2004, 19:22
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
02-21-2004, 22:04
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
02-29-2004, 17:59
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
03-07-2004, 03:20
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
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
03-07-2004, 10:25
"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
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." :D
Hikerhead, I can appreciate your earworm also. Good choice for you and I. :)
jojo0425
03-07-2004, 20:06
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. :D
for me its always been jimmy buffet cheeseburgers in paradise.
:datz but know thanks to patco its those damn wiggles id like to get my hands on that maury hehehhe
Dances with Mice
03-07-2004, 22:12
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--
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. :D
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 :p
Doctari.
pjohnson
06-10-2004, 20:05
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
06-11-2004, 00:50
"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
06-11-2004, 08:42
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
06-11-2004, 10:24
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
06-11-2004, 13:35
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
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
06-11-2004, 17:04
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! ;)
Mountain Dew
06-11-2004, 17:55
While thru-hiking in 2003 I would often listen to my headphones as I hiked. Several times songs got stuck in my head for days. On one occassion I got a "stupid" Ozzy Osborne song stuck in my head thanks to Greenman so i returned the favor with singing an old country song around him that to this day is stuck in his head. The words go something like this.....
Honey ...Honey... Honey wont you open this door
it's cold outside and wont you let me sleep on the floor
honey wont you open this door...
So you can imagine a heavy metal guy like Greenman singing this song over and over. hahahaa I also got Sunkist with the theme from Seseame Street....
Sunny days ..everythings A- ok.....blah blah
wont ya tell me how to get
how to get to seseame street....
Baltimore Jack was so into Shania Twain on his 2003 hike that anytime one of her songs came on my radio he'd be perfectly fine with me unplugging the headphones thus letting him hear the song.
hahaaaa Goodtimes
I've had the the opening bit from Pure Prairie League's "Aime" stuck in my head for a week. Its making me nuts.
...exactly what is "an earworm"?
justusryans
11-13-2005, 10:06
...exactly what is "an earworm"?
it's having a song or snippet of song in your head that you can't seem to get rid of.
Twenty, twenty, twenty- four hours to go...
I wanna be sedated!
"The Ramones"
Music made the miles pass more easily!
It could be whatever I heard last. Or something I was reminded of. "Good old Rockytop" rattled through my head from the moment I started up it's slopes in GSNP. "Happy Wanderer", "Almost Heaven", "The bear went over the mountain", "The Grand old Duke of York", ad infinitum.
Then things that reminded me of home, like "Skye Boat Song".
On and on and on................
it's having a song or snippet of song in your head that you can't seem to get rid of.
Twenty, twenty, twenty- four hours to go...
I wanna be sedated!
"The Ramones"
Actually, some friends turned me on to the power of "I Wanna Be Sedated" as an anti-earworm treatment. Whenever you get something else stuck in your head, just start singing the above. Guaranteed to drive whatever else was in your head out without getting stuck there itself!:clap
Gray Blazer
11-14-2005, 14:53
"It's all so beautiful......"
Can't remember who that was by. Some psychogoofic song from the 60's or 70's. Kept going through my head on a perfectly clear day on Hell's Ridge in the Smokies.
Some earworms are kinda pleasant. As I approached the Whites in 1993, I caught the Stan Kenton jazz version of the "September Song," on my radio and it stayed with me through Katahdin, thanks to multiple memories.
I was 64 years old, I'd been hiking with a very pleasant and pretty woman 20 years my junior until a month earlier, and I'd been on the trail since mid April and was approaching the end of a great adventure.
What better lyrics than:
"Oh, it?s a long, long while from may to december
But the days grow short when you reach september
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
One hasn?t got time for the waiting game
"Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, november
And these few precious days I?ll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you...."
Weary
jeepcj258
11-14-2005, 18:15
I am constanly plagued, but it is always some random song that I heard on the radio while driving to the trail.
Uncle Silly
11-14-2005, 21:19
"I see a white blaze approachin'
I see another one 'round the bend
I see the trail keeps goin'
I know my boots are wearin' thin
Hiker stay on the trail
Just go into town to get your mail
There's a shelter up on the ridge"
(with apologies to CCR)
Bianchi Veloce
11-15-2005, 01:59
... are
bullet with butterfly wings
"the world is a vampire, sent to drain
secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
and what do i get, for my pain
betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
even though i know, suppose i'll show
all my cool and cold, like old Job
despite all my rage, i am still just a rat in a cage"
Smashing Pumpkins
and
Dead & Bloated
"I am smellin' like the rose
that somebody gave me on
my birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
that somebody gave me
'cause I'm dead and bloated"
Stone Temple Pilots
Ramble~On
11-15-2005, 06:23
Man.... They help pass the miles though.
I usually don't realize I'm singing as I walk along until I bump into somebody.
I don't mind them as long as its a good song and when I want to get rid of one I just start singing something else.
Although I do recall a nasty rainy period that went on for a long time and I was stuck with my hood up..........."rain drops keep falling on my head"
" rain drops keep falling on my head "
"We're off to see the Wizard.....the Wonderful Wizard of OZ"
because because because...........................
walkin' wally
11-17-2005, 21:40
"It's all so beautiful......"
Can't remember who that was by. Some psychogoofic song from the 60's or 70's. Kept going through my head on a perfectly clear day on Hell's Ridge in the Smokies.
Itchycoo Park "get high... touch the sky" etc.
walkin' wally
11-17-2005, 21:42
A trail song for me
'Turn The Page' by Bob Seger
Skidsteer
11-17-2005, 21:52
I remember one entire day that Hank Williams Jr.'s song " If Heaven ain't a Lot Like Dixie..." kept skipping a groove in my head-I hate that song now. :datz
Uncle Silly
11-18-2005, 19:23
I'm with SpiritWind ... if I don't like the song stuck in my head, I'll sing something else to replace it! (Tho thanks to this thread, "I Wanna Be Sedated" keeps popping into my brain...)
justusryans
11-18-2005, 19:44
You CAN'T get sick of the Ramones!!
A song that always rattles around in my head when I'm traveling be it by foot, train, plane, whatever.
Take it Easy - The Eagles
Well, I’m running down the road
Tryin’ to loosen my load
I’ve got seven women on my mind.
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she’s a friend of mine.
Take it easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy.
Lighten up while you still can.
Don’t even try to understand.
Just find a place to make your stand.
And take it easy.
Well, I’m a standing on a corner
In winslow, arizona
And such a fine sight to see.
It’s a girl, my lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin’ down to take a look at me.
Come on, baby, don’t say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
Gonna save me.
We may lose and we may win though
We will never be here again.
So open up, I’m climbin’ in,
So take it easy.
Well I’m running down the road trying to loosen
My load, got a world of trouble on my mind.
Lookin’ for a lover who won’t blow my
Cover, she’s so hard to find.
Take it easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own
Wheels make you crazy.
Come on baby, don’t say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
Gonna save me. oh oh oh
Oh we got it easy.
We oughta take it easy.
bartender
11-18-2005, 22:25
I often sing(silently for the benefit of those withen earshot)to myself to set a cadence or pass the time, but sometimes the most insidious earworm of them all gets me. I think they were called "The Proclaimers?" and the song is "I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more, to be the guy..." It would take trying to sing all of American Beauty or Workingmans Dead to get rid of it. While I was on my LT thru the Canadian National Anthem would get stuck in my head for hours, "O Canada, we stand on guard for thee, etc.
saimyoji
11-18-2005, 22:43
One recently imposed on me:
There's a Hole in the Bucket
Written By: Unknown
Copyright Unknown
There's a hole in the bucket,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
There's a hole in the bucket,
Dear Liza, there's a hole.
Then fix it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then fix it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, fix it.
With what shall I fix it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I fix it,
Dear Liza, with what?
With a straw, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With a straw, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, with a straw.
But the straw is too long,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
But the straw is too long,
Dear Liza, too long
Then cut it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then cut it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, cut it.
With what shall I cut it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I cut it,
Dear Liza, with what?
With an axe, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With an axe, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, an axe.
The axe is too dull,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
The axe is too dull,
Dear Liza, too dull
Then sharpen it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then sharpen it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, sharpen it.
With what shall I sharpen it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I sharpen it,
Dear Liza, with what?
With a stone, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With a stone, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, a stone.
The stone is too dry,
Dear Liza, dear Liza
The stone is too dry,
Dear Liza, too dry
Then wet it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
Then wet it, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, wet it.
With what shall I wet it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I wet it,
Dear Liza, with what?
With water, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
With water, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, with water.
How shall I get it,
Dear Liza, dear Liza,
How shall I get it,
Dear Liza, how shall I?
In the bucket, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, dear Henry
In the bucket, dear Henry,
Dear Henry, in the bucket.
There's a hole in the bucket.
One recently imposed on me:
There's a Hole in the Bucket
OMG I had to play that over and over again when I was a kid practicing my flute UGH...lol....I still have it memorized
"it's a small world after all....."
.....especially in the sing-song Disney-kid-high-pitched voices. It is enough to make me want to chew an arm off! :rolleyes: Sue
Theme song to Rocky always comes to mind on the uphills.
...Getting strong now...
... Hmmmmmmm...
...Getting strong now...
... More humming...
... Getting strong now...
You get the idea. And yes I have jumped up and down, fists clenched and raised above my head. Just like the movie... But the views are a heck of a lot better!:clap
starvingmusician
01-14-2006, 19:57
The Llama Song!!! For those brave souls not familiar with the melody, here's the URL: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
Here's a llama, theres a llama
and another little llama,
fuzzy llama, funny llama,
llama, llama, duck.
Llama, llama, cheese cake, llama,
tablet, brick, potato, llama,
llama, llama, mushroom, llama,
llama, llama, duck.
I was once a treehouse. I lived in a cake.
But i never saw the way the orange slayed the rake.
I was only three years dead but it told a tale.
And now listen little child to the safety rail.
Did you ever see a llama
kiss a llama on the llama?
llama`s llama, tastes of llama,
llama llama duck.
Half a llama, twice a llama,
not a llama, farmer, llama,
llama in a car, alarm a,
llama, llama duck.
Is that how its told now? Is it all that old?
Is it made of lemon juice? Doorknob, ankle, cold.
Now my song is getting thin, I've run out of luck.
Time for me to retire now and become a duck.