Arrrgh!!

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<p>Have you ever had a song run through your head repeatedly for hours on end? Well that’s been my day today. Allllll day. Guess what the song is?</p>

<p>Ready?</p>

<p>Hail to the Chief. </p>

<p>Get a knife and shoot me now.</p>

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<p>Good grief, Zoosermom!</p>

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<p>Just to help, here are the lyrics. No need to thank me. ;)</p>

<pre><code>Hail to the Chief we have chosen for the nation,
Hail to the Chief! We salute him, one and all.
Hail to the Chief, as we pledge cooperation
In proud fulfillment of a great, noble call.

Yours is the aim to make this grand country grander,
This you will do, that’s our strong, firm belief.
Hail to the one we selected as commander,
Hail to the President! Hail to the Chief!
</code></pre>

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<p>For the life of me I can’t summon up the tune to “Hail to the Chief.” Every time I try it morphs into “Joy to the World” for some reason. Dum, dum de dum, de dum dum dum…</p>

<p>Now you’re torturing me, Zoosermom. Karma.</p>

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<p>You have an earworm! I sure hope that song is not contagious.</p>

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<p>I can’t shoot you with a knife</p>

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<p>For those who can’t remember this tune, here is an audio file:</p>

<p><a href=“About James Madison - JMU”>About James Madison - JMU;

<p>(Zoosermom - Do NOT click on this link!!!)</p>

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<p>well, just start thinking about </p>

<p>THe Lion Sleeps Tonight</p>

<p>that should help</p>

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<p>kluge, It goes like this:</p>

<p>dum dum de dum dum de dum de dum de dum dum(b)</p>

<p>dum dum de dum dum de dum de dum de dum</p>

<p>(bum bum bum)</p>

<p>dum dum de dum dum de dum de dum de dum dum
dum dum de dum dum dum dum dum… deeeee… dum!</p>

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<p>is that better or worse than</p>

<p>this top ten ear worm list</p>

<p>Other. Everyone has his or her own worst earworm.
Chili’s “Baby Back Ribs” jingle.
“Who Let the Dogs Out”
“We Will Rock You”
Kit-Kat candy-bar jingle (“Gimme a Break …”)
“Mission Impossible” theme
“YMCA”
“Whoomp, There It Is”
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
“It’s a Small World After All”</p>

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<p>Last week it was the Good N’ Plenty jingle for me:</p>

<p>Choo-choo Charlie was an Engineer
Choo-choo Charlie was his name we hear
He had an engine and he sure had fun
He used Good N’ Plenty Candy to make his train run
Charlie says “love my Good N’ Plenty!”
Charlie says “Really rings a bell!”
Charlie says "Love my Good N’ Plenty
don’t know any other candy that I love so well.</p>

<p>Ugh…I had to listen to it on You Tube just to make sure I had the lyrics right:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>A couple of weeks ago, my husband got a musical Boss’s Day card that played “Hail to the Chief.” It resided in my head for a couple of days.</p>

<p>The one that drove me crazy recently was hearing my Freshman Daughter’s Alma Mater when we dropped her off at William and Mary in August. The tune was so familiar but I was sure I’d never heard it–at least not the words–before. I kept singing it to myself and finally tracked it down on the web.Turns out it is a very popular melody for many colleges. Cornell and Vanderbilt, among others, use it.</p>

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<p>Oh dear zoosermom</p>

<p>No hail to this chief. How about the Erie canal song–that’s kind of fun.</p>

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<p>smdur - for you </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.wm.edu/so/choir/mp3/almamater.mp3[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/so/choir/mp3/almamater.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I whistle the tune from “My Three Sons” all the time. SAD. Really sad. :(</p>

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<p>Thanks, Cartera! I had found the lyrics but not the mp3.</p>

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<p>Found myself, at work, humming, “I’m a (sweet?) transexual from transylvania”</p>

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<p>I’ve got Last Night of the World (from Miss Saigon) stuck in my head. It’s been there for several days now. I love the song, but I’m growing a little tired of it. Somebody bump me so I can get past the skip.</p>

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<p>In our house, the payback for passing along an earworm is that unbelievably awful song from the mid-70s, “Playground in my Mind.”</p>

<p>You know (and if you don’t, I envy you), </p>

<p>My name is Michael,
I got [sic] a nickel,
I got a nickel,
Shiny and new.</p>

<p>I’m gonna buy me [sic-AARGH]
All kinds of candy
That’s what I’m gonna do!</p>

<p>:::Repeat until offending party retreats, screaming:::</p>

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<p>You are EVIL!!! I actually started humming out loud in my office. You can imagine the looks.</p>