this week’s unaccountable ear worm

I will often get them when I wake up in the early hours, then it is buzzing around my brain stopping me going back to sleep,😵 I try thinking about something else or visualise a scene, washing blowing on a line sometimes helps, not sure why , sometimes I wake back up and it is there again, but I often can't remember them in the morning.

I love Joyce Grenfell; I have a CD which always cheers me up.

My most persistent ear worms arrive when I’m walking, usually Flower of Scotland or, for some bizarre reason, the Marseillaise even in the middle of Summer so no recent 6 nations rugby to watch. They’re quite useful though as they turn my amble into a march so I get places much faster!

I've had Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas since last week when we sang it at Tuneless choir, and also heard it on the radio the other day! Aaagh!

Just checked with Google and stately as a galleon comes from Old Tyne Dancing song by Joyce Grenfell.

It's Jim Davidson singing 'Maggie' lovely song but been about 2 weeks now and I have had enough of it.

Google Joyce Grenfell you’ll get the words.

My most recent one was Puff the Magic Dragon 😳
I had Googled it for youngest dgs to listen to, and he liked it enough to ask for it again many times over the following week or two. It's only just stopped running on repeat in my mind.

A worse one in the past was Nelly the Elephant. That was back when I had an allotment, and sometimes it would be in my head for hours on end while I was working there. I seem to recall that it plagued me for months. It is not as if I have ever liked that song. But maybe that is why that memory has stayed with me.
I know that I also get random 'normal' songs (pop songs from my youth) as earworms very regularly, but once those particular worms have left my ear, I quickly forget they were ever there.

I work outdoors, mostly by myself. Recently, for nearly a whole shift I had the theme tune to Flipper in my head and couldn’t shake it off. I haven‘t watched the programme since I was a young girl, so no idea where that came from but it was driving me mad

Just be glad it isn’t The Chicken Song 🎶😂

Today it is "The Old Grey Goose is Dead" Ugh!

At the moment driving me mad is Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour dream coat, it’s just the first verse which luckily I know the words to. A couple of weeks ago I was tormented by drums, day and night, the Rythm and volume was so bad I sent for British Gas to check the boiler as I thought it was that banging, it wasn’t, the engineer said the only noise he could hear was the humming of the fridge, lucky him.

An interesting thread, it’s interesting to see what earworm other people get. I love music, and listen to a lot, but for some reason Greensleeves is a permanent earworm for me, it has been since I heard it first when I was eight or nine - it’s very annoying, I try never to hear it.

At the moment I’ve also got Whatever by Oasis going through my head at random moments, don’t know why, as I don’t think I’ve heard it lately.

Mine, which I have had ever since watching a film with John Wayne in it called The Horse Soldiers is “The Bonny Blue Flag”. It’s always there in the background and I don’t even realise I’m humming along to it. I wish it was a tune I had always been fond of but it isn’t and I’m stuck with it!

I had that one for a while, Hiraeth.

Golden slumbers sung from Paul McCartney it’s been going round in my head for 2 days now !

You're very welcome 😁 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

Allira

Magenta8

I have "I've Got a Brand New Combine Harvester" by the Wurzels invading my ear at the moment. Can it get any worse?

I also revert to an annoying tune that I can't identify sometimes. It sounds a bit like a German/Hungarian folk dance but I have no idea what it is.

That could be my fault - in the Get/Got thread 😁

You could be right. Thanks a lot.

Glad I'm not the only one with religious earworms

I woke up with a song I haven,t heard since the 1970,s I couldn,t shake it for days I bought the album.
Anyone remember Badfinger,s No Matter What?
It’s a good album,some songs I remember some I don’t but worth the money

Magenta8

I have "I've Got a Brand New Combine Harvester" by the Wurzels invading my ear at the moment. Can it get any worse?

I also revert to an annoying tune that I can't identify sometimes. It sounds a bit like a German/Hungarian folk dance but I have no idea what it is.

That could be my fault - in the Get/Got thread 😁

kittylester

I have 2 at the moment. One is Valerie (or Valerrrreeee) which we are practising at choir. The other is 'Go Steady' by Sam Ryder which makes me want to cry.

Valerrrrreee is really catchy isn’t it?

sodapop

For some reason I often have hymns as earworms. My latest is Way far beyond Jordan and I can only remember a few lines.

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Forgive our foolish ways

Quite frequently now!

henetha

Yes. This week it's ELO Wild West Hero. Luckily I do like ELO.

ELO here too 😄 Mr Blue Sky, which I do really like at least.

I had 'The Road To Marrakesh' by Crosby, Stills and Nash literally going round in my head for weeks.

Hope it doesn't come back now I have typed this.

I frequently have hymns as my earworms but lately it’s been ‘stately as a galleon she sailed across the floor, doing the military two step as in the days of yore’. I don’t remember much more which is so annoying!