Musical Earworms

[emmie]

do you get them, that bit of music you just can't place and
it sits in your brain, i had just the one yesterday and its been bugging
me ever since. I think i have cracked it but what a pain...

[albaqwerty]

don't mind them if it's something I like, but the worst are the horrible little 2 or 3 lines of annoying songs which are the worst. :)

[emmie]

i know,, mine was one word and couldn't place it at all
i got there by process of google and sheer doggedness

[naomi24]

I usually manage to figure that out, but I often get a song in my head that just won't go away. Days ago I heard some children singing 'So Long, Farewell', from The Sound of Music and the blasted song won't go away. Just keeps popping back to bug me. Ironic really that a song called 'So Long, Farewell' refuses to go. :o)

[emmie]

ha ha that's a good one, mine was one word Jackyboy
turns out it's not a well known song but something that was featured in Larkrise to Candleford tv drama.
it is a real tune by the way but could i place it, aagh

[rowanwitch]

Often it's something I really hate, bits of Andrew Lloyd webber, hallelujah, but I have pinged back to the song I first heard the day Dave died. Only four lines on continuous loop.

[emmie]

rowan, that's sad, but hopefully you have happy memories too.

[rowanwitch]

Don't cry anymore for me
Because I am sailing a different sea
And I will be with you in your dreams
Now that life doesnt trouble me....

Dave was a merchant seaman and loved the sea
The comfort we gain from strange coincidence is irrational but interesting

[emmie]

as long as it's comforting that is what counts