Drawing

More children's music when I woke up today. This one comes from the mostly wonderful Barenaked Ladies "Snack Time" album.
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Sadly the song I heard was not one of the finer tracks from Snack Time.
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TODAY'S SONG:
"Drawing"
Barenaked Ladies
2008
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INSIGHT:
Again, this is another CD that Max and I listen to during our daily commute.
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There are some fantastic kids' songs on this album, but "Drawing" is not one of them. Inexplicably I keep hearing the phrase "with my pencil crayon . . . with my pencil crayon . . . with my pencil crayon . . . with my pencil crayon . . . " Also the repetitive na-na-na's up the annoyance factor.
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Emphatical Piratical

This morning I was humming tunes from the Emphatical Piratical album, specifically the title track, which is set to the tune of Offenbach's "Galop Infernal."
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This song may rattle around in my head in heavy rotation for quite some time. It's quite catchy.
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TODAY'S SONG:
"Emphatical Piratical"
Captain Bogg & Salty
2008
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INSIGHT:
No mystery why this song is stuck in my head. My nearly-two-year-old son Max and I have been listening to this CD during our daily commute. My husband Matt has also been humming various Captain Bogg & Salty ditties lately.
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How could you possibly avoid singing these lyrics over and over and over and over and . . . ?
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I used to fancy myself as a bit of a hipster on the musical scene. Now in my 30's, this is the kind of stuff to which you will find me jamming out.

You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille

Rare is the morning I do not wake up with a song in my head. I have no control over it, or I would choose a much cooler playlist.
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I have long wondered if there is any pattern to the songs I wake up singing. This blog will be my effort to keep track of the crappy songs upon which I involuntarily ruminate.
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TODAY'S SONG:
"You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille"
Kenny Rogers
1977
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INSIGHT:
None.
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Absolutely no idea why this song is in my head. I have no recollection of hearing it recently. I do not know anyone named Lucille. I have not recently been abandoned with four hungry children and crops in the field.