There's a song in the air

[venta]

When I lived in Oxford, and got real milk delivered by a real milkman, it was inevitable that I sometimes had to leave notes saying "no milk today". At which point I was left singing No Milk Today for the forseeable.

When I used to help out at the beer festival in Darlington, one of the staple ales severed was the (now, I think sadly defunct) Butterknowle Brewery's Old Ebeneezer. In between pulling pints, I invariably sang bits of the sea shanty about "the good ship, Ebeneezer". This was particularly annoying, because I only know about a line and a half of it. Why a shanty I barely know instead of the perfectly excellent Ebeneezer Goode? I don't know. I don't do it on purpose.

Sometimes, I don't even need a phrase to be actually mentioned in a song. On the mercifully rare occasions I have to mess with my Windows desktop settings, I invariably end up warbling faintly to myself The shareef don't liiiike it... lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar! Once heard, it cannot be unheard.

Today, I walked through Reading's centre and observed that the Early Learning Centre had shut. Which means as soon as I've managed to forget it was there, I won't start nearly so many of my working days singing Magic Streets - We went to the Early Learning Centre, with the money that I'd lent yer....

There seems to be an inexhaustible supply of things which make me burst into song (usually, for the sake of everyone around, quietly). Does anyone else have similar problems? What sends you off into a song?

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Everything. If it isn't song lyrics it's obscure bits from sitcoms (I can't say 'sarcastic' without it becoming Brian Damage saying 'sar-car-stic', for instance). I suffer earworms all day long.

I don't shop in Iceland because otherwise I am the mum who's gone to Iceland. Lots of everyday phrases become Camptown Races if they have the right metre ("sausage casserole for tea, doo-dah, doo-dah"). narenek and I have been known to go through the whole of the theme tune of Bread of a morning ("Got to get up..."). "No Milk Today" will be with me most of the morning, since I finished the pint earlier and you've set it up, but I will get rid of it when I buy some more, at which point it will either be 'drinka-pinta-milka-day' or 'Accrington Stanley' for a bit.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Camptown Races is dreadful for infiltrating everything. I didn't think of that one. I don't think I suffer similarly from spoken word bits - although I do say them, it's usually deliberately. Another phrase which got much adapted was the "I'm on a horse!" from the Old Spice ad a few years ago - so "I'm on a train", or "I'm on the phone". But again, that was usually voluntary on my part.

you've set it up

Sorry!