Some damage control needed.
Put on Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, and you'll have a antidote to the miserable songs on this thread.
Web sites are devoted to Canon in D. I play it everyday, in everyway I can find it!
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Title: "Best Friend" (AKA Theme to 'The Courtship of Eddie's Father')
By: "Harry Nilsson"
People let me tell you 'bout my best friend,
He's a warm hearted person who'll love me till the end.
People let me tell you bout my best friend,
He's a one boy cuddly toy, my up, my down, my pride and joy.
People let me tell you 'bout him he's so much fun
Whether we're talkin' man to man or whether we're talking son to son.
Cause he's my best friend.
Yes he's my best friend.
I think it's the scat singing at the end of this atrocity that really gives it maximum suckage, plus it's bouncy, so just reading the words should make them stick in your mind...perhaps for days.
Sorry, I'm just about maxed out on that one.
Our choirmaster does a "cocktail lounge version" of it that is lie down on the floor and howl funny. We told him he needs to put a brandy snifter on the corner of the organ for tips . . .
My problem with tunes stuck in my head is that I can't get rid of the Sunday anthems for a day or so afterwards. I don't much care for the modern stuff (Jane Marshall's "Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven" is pretty rough, that was last Sunday's offertory) but the real problem is that I sing alto, so the alto line is what's stuck. So sometimes it's not even really a tune. Fortunately, the communion anthem was Richard Farrant's "Hide Not Thou Thy Face O Lord" which is not only beautiful but has a delightful moving alto line. So I cheerfully carolled that all the way to work.