trog Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 In response to : "Who's got a head like a pingpong ball?" (Sung round a scout/guide campfire) And anyone else know "Oh father, look at Uncle Jim, diving in the bathtub, learning how to swim" ? That's the one that really gets me. (Perhaps these misplaced earworms need their own section, so people don't alight on them unexpectedly and get caught!!!) I know it's a bit early in the year but While shepherds washed their sox by nightAll seated 'round the tubA bar of Sunlight soap came downAnd they began to scrub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 I've just had to go on Wikipedia and look up what an ear worm was. It sounded gross. I'm always getting songs in my head, just like my mother used to. Usually it's the theme tune to Family Guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Mary had a little pram Its wheels were perfect squares And everywhere that Mary went The baby said its prayers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Oh dear, earworms with Mondegreen complications. Sounds nasty... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 The version I know is Oh Jemima, look at your Uncle Jim, in the duckpond learning how to swim. First he does the breast stroke and then he does the side, now he's under the water swimming against the tide! My school has just had its annual performance - certain pieces of music became impossible to get out of my head after a concentrated rehearsal! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Melody: As a Scot, I do wonder about the 'Mondegreen' business and was quite surprised when I first came across it as a phenomenon for I'd never been in any doubt concerning those words of "The Bonnie Earl O' Moray." And as it's now ringing in my ear, excuse me whilst I assume a suitable heldentenor pose to declaim: Ye Hielands and Ye Lowlands, O whaur hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl O' Moray And ..... Lady Mondegreen???? Surely not? Is 'laid him on the green' so impenetrable? (But there are words that probably need footnotes later on!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuthE Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 The version I know is Oh Jemima, look at your Uncle Jim, in the duckpond learning how to swim. First he does the breast stroke and then he does the side, now he's under the water swimming against the tide! My school has just had its annual performance - certain pieces of music became impossible to get out of my head after a concentrated rehearsal! The version I know has two verses! Oh Jemima, look at your Uncle Jim, He's in the duckpond learning how to swim. First he does the breast stroke and then he does the crawl, Now he's under the water and he can't be seen at all! Oh Jemima, look at your Uncle Jim, He's in the duckpond learning how to swim. First he does the back stroke and then he does the side, Now he's under the water swimming against the tide! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Interesting - as I typed it out, "breaststroke" came automatically, but later I wondered if it should have been "backstroke". Obviously at some point the two verses were blended! And to do it properly you have to do the movements at the same time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Melody: As a Scot, I do wonder about the 'Mondegreen' business and was quite surprised when I first came across it as a phenomenon for I'd never been in any doubt concerning those words of "The Bonnie Earl O' Moray." And as it's now ringing in my ear, excuse me whilst I assume a suitable heldentenor pose to declaim: Ye Hielands and Ye Lowlands, O whaur hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl O' Moray And ..... Lady Mondegreen???? Surely not? Is 'laid him on the green' so impenetrable? (But there are words that probably need footnotes later on!) Well, I think it was an American writer who claimed her sister had misheard it - maybe she didn't know what a green was. We have a small reindeer toy thingy as well as a life-size-ish one among our Christmas decorations; after hearing the wonderful mondegreen in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, we've taken to calling the small one Olive ("Olive the other reindeer, laughed at him and called him names...") Sad, really, but there it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveclassics Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 This used to be a popular feature on certain radio programmes back in the day, Noel Edmund's daily Radio 1 show for example. I remember well 'It's a hard egg, nothing but a hard egg' and that all-time favourite 'Oh, Oh, my ears are alight'. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) I remember Paul Young's song - Everytime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you. There was also Abba's Gimme Gimme Gimme ( a man until/after midnight). I always heard the line Take me through the darkness as Take me to the doctor's at the break of the day. S'pose either could be right. Edited June 2, 2016 by Jacqueline 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 And I still swear that Jimi Hendrix sang "scuse me while I kiss this guy"! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Mine was Dusty Springfield singing "You don't have to say you love me, just because I'm tanned". It was a long time before I found out the truth! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 I was at primary school when Grease came out. None of us had seen the film yet and only a very lucky few had the double album. But we all used to sing Olivia Newton John's song as Hope He Divorces You !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Current tv ad earworms for me are "Easter cr*p" at insert supermarket name here. They must be saying Easter crack, as in eggs. But it doesn't sound like it. Come to think of it, neither version sounds too good. The other ad is for a brand of fabric conditioner which will provide "comfort in tents." Must be powerful stuff as that is quite a big ask, unless you are glamping perhaps. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 The Cream song Badge - what I think is actually "Now he's married to Mabel" I always thought was "No he's not a tomato"! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 for me, Adele's James Bond theme song goes "is it trifle? is it crumble?" 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueline Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 58 minutes ago, Quintus said: for me, Adele's James Bond theme song goes "is it trifle? is it crumble?" Isn't it trifaw, cwumbaw? Our Adele being the queen of estuawee English? Then there's that famous ditty by Billy Jo Spears - Blanket on the Ground. For years I thought she was singing Just because we are married, don't mean we can't sleep around. Funny, that's exactly what I thought marriage did mean. I have since discovered, having heard the song again recently, she was actually singing We can't SLIP around. Presumably a reference to the possibility that despite being married, folks can still have fun. With the person to whom they are married. Oooh I see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Funny that people have bumped this thread all of a sudden. I was just doing the washing up when I realised that it's over a month now since I went to see An American in Paris, and I still have "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" intermittently on the brain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 ♫there's a bathroom on the right ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 On 17/05/2016 at 16:16, trog said: In response to : I know it's a bit early in the year but While shepherds washed their sox by night All seated 'round the tub A bar of Sunlight soap came down And they began to scrub. Very posh, Trog. We used to sing the last two lines: The angel of the Lord came down, And gave their bums a scrub. And while we are on the subject of Christmas carols, when We Three Kings was being sung, my brother used to sing: We 4 kings of Liverpool are, George in a taxi, Paul in a car, John on a scooter, beeping his hooter, Following Ringo Starr. That may have to be explained to the youngsters on here! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huddsballetmum Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I always remember a song that came out in 1989 called "who's in the house" and I was convinced it was "Bugs in the house" and could not be persuaded otherwise for years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 A week on from Good Friday and I'm still with Bach's "Herr, unser Herrscher etc ..." when I need to be making headroom for John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls." Looks simple on the page but it's proving far from that, I fear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aruna S Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Years ago there was a programme on the BBC World Service, presented by Gordon Clyde, where you could send in requests for music. A man wrote in asking for an aria from Rigoletto which his very young son persisted in calling 'elephant's ears'. It was "La Donna e' mobile", and I've never been able to get it out of my head since. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Even worse, long ago I had some Italian student friends who taught me a very rude version of words to that melody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 On 14/04/2017 at 01:26, alison said: I was just doing the washing up when I realised that it's over a month now since I went to see An American in Paris, and I still have "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" intermittently on the brain! Currently ousted, since the BBC Young Dancer final, by "If I Didn't Care". Aaaagh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 When you swim in the sea And an eel bites your knee That's a moray That's been going round in my brain since the weekend!!!! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Dave you really need to keep off the sauce....!! My ear worm since last Friday night is the Giselle Act 2 pdd music. This happened to me last run of Giselle too; the music just never went out of my head. I even had Led Zeppelin on my headphones on my to work this morning, and Giselle is still going round my brain. Luckily I love it!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Lucky you, Sim! One performance of Giselle, it turned out, wasn't actually enough to evict various bits of La Sylphide, which keep coming back - the reel in particular! Not to mention that yesterday morning, or possibly the day before, I had the Brotherhood of Man's "Save All Your Kisses For Me" on the brain (for our younger readers, UK 1976 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest!) - I have no idea where that came from! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Thanks for starting this thread, Dave - I could have sworn we already had one, and was intending to post about La Sylphide anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 3 hours ago, zxDaveM said: When you swim in the sea And an eel bites your knee That's a moray That's been going round in my brain since the weekend!!!! Next lines: When you're diving at night, and you get a deep bite, that's a Moray. And yes, we did have an earworm thread somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 I couldn't find one when I ran a search for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 A Led Zeppelin/Giselle combo? The mind boggles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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