At least The Old Dun Cow is a comic song, so doesn't come to too much harm with a bit of (although imo insufferably irritating) flippancy, which might just perhaps have been a tiny bit amusing the first 900 times, but stretched as it has been to ∞...

Whereas I think that what has been done to Pleasant & Delightful, with all the finger-popping, looking in opposite directions, & other such fatuous histrionics to ruin a beautiful song ···

Yuk! The very thought of it makes me want to throw up -- & fantasise about finding out the original perpetrator and kicking him severely in the testicles. Did somebody say it was The Spinners? Even if they didn't originate it, they proliferated it; and should be bloody-well ashamed: a real blot on an otherwise deservedly admired and respected group.

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