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06 Mar 10 - 07:52 PM (#2857965) Subject: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: ichMael Checked the database and didn't see anything on this. Not sure which category it belongs in. I was researching a song a friend used to sing--it just went on and on and on. Same verse over and over. Same line over and over ("I'll make you hate this song / I'll make you hate this song / I'll make you hate this song / I'll make you hate this song. repeat). It was meant to irritate. Anyway, I found this webpage: Sing a Never-Ending Song! Is this a category of songs? Has it been researched and documented? Some of the lyrics from the webpage: The Song That Gets On Everybody's Nerves I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, Everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, And this is how it goes... (repeat) The Cow Went Up the Hill The cow went up the hill. The cow went up the hill. Next verse, same as the first, it never gets better, it only gets worse. (repeat) |
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06 Mar 10 - 08:05 PM (#2857974) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Dave MacKenzie There's a version of "The Bear Went Over The Mountain" in this category: Oh a bear went over a mountain (3*) To see what he could see. And what do you think he saw? (2*) The other side of the mountain (3*) Was all that he could see. So what do you think he did? He climbed back over the mountain To see what he could see. And what do you think he saw ...... |
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06 Mar 10 - 08:37 PM (#2857988) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Susan of DT The cow kicked Nelly in the belly in the barn The cow kicked Nelly in the belly in the barn The cow kicked Nelly in the belly in the barn The doctor said it would do no harm Second verse, same as the first A little bit louder and a little bit worse The cow kicked Nelly in the belly in the barn... |
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06 Mar 10 - 08:44 PM (#2857994) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: oldhippie in kinda a rap beat: Crazy, I was crazy once. They put me in a room with padded walls I died there, they buried me six feet under Then the bugs came. Bugs. Bugs drive me crazy. repeat |
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06 Mar 10 - 08:53 PM (#2857998) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Bill D ♫As I was walkin' down the lane, down the lane, down the lane. As I was walkin' down the lane, I sang a song...that song had this refrain- As I was walkin' down the lane, down the lane, down the lane. As I was walkin' down the lane, I sang a song...that song had this refrain-...♫ |
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06 Mar 10 - 09:15 PM (#2858009) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Paul Burke This song is about nothin' at all Nothin' at all, nothin' at all, This song is about nothin' at all, That's why it's got no words. |
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06 Mar 10 - 09:51 PM (#2858032) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Bill D 99 bottles of beer on a wall, 99 bottles of beer.. Take one down.....put it back up.. 99 bottles of beer on a wall. 99 bottles......... |
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06 Mar 10 - 10:07 PM (#2858036) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: frogprince The horse goes round, the horse goes round, the horse goes round, the horse goes round; The horse goes round, the horse goes round, the horse goes round, the horse goes round; Same song, second verse; could be better, but it's gonna get worse... |
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06 Mar 10 - 10:07 PM (#2858037) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Bill D one that 'could' go on forever, depending on how many verses you can get in before they start throwing rotten fruit.... Lloyd George Knew My Father Tune: Onward Christian Soldiers Written By: Unknown Copyright Unknown Lloyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George Lloyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George Lloyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George Lloyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George Lloyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George Lloyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George |
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07 Mar 10 - 04:58 AM (#2858143) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST,Gerry Aleph-nought bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-nought bottles of beer! If one of those bottles should happen to fall, Aleph-nought bottles of beer on the wall. This is the song that never ends It just goes on and on my friends Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, And they'll continue singing it forever just because... |
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07 Mar 10 - 05:45 AM (#2858169) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Paul Burke To (well) Oiled Lang Syne: We're here because we're here Because we're here because we're here, We're here because we're here Because we're here because we're here, We're here because we're here Because we're here because we're here, We're here because we're here Because we're here because we're here.... |
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07 Mar 10 - 05:56 AM (#2858174) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: cetmst On Ilkla Moor Baht Aht There's a Hole in My Bucket To the tune of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling: There's a town in old New Hampshire; There's an old New Hampshire town. There's a town in old New Hampshire; There's an old New Hampshire town. There's a town in old New Hampshire; There's an old New Hampshire town. There's a town in old New Hampshire; There's an old New Hampshire town. For as many verses as you can tolerate. |
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07 Mar 10 - 09:56 AM (#2858308) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Mr Happy Marks & Spencers, next door to Woolworths Marks & Spencers, next door to Woolworths Marks & Spencers, next door to Woolworths Marks & Spencers, next door to Woolworths [ad infinitum!] to tune of something Spanish don't know name maybe from Carmen? |
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07 Mar 10 - 10:27 AM (#2858319) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: dick greenhaus My name is Yon Yonson I live in Wisconsin I work in the lumber camps there. When I walk down the street All the people I meet Say, "Hello. What's your name?" And I say.... My name is etc. |
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07 Mar 10 - 11:25 AM (#2858361) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Leadfingers Or if you dont want to actually sing :- You remind me of a man What man ? A man with the power What Power? The power of HooDoo ! Hoo Doo ?? You Do I do what ? You remind me of a man Etc etc etc |
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07 Mar 10 - 11:30 AM (#2858366) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Mr Happy Infinity plus one men went to mow!!!!!!!!!! |
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07 Mar 10 - 01:26 PM (#2858462) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: semi-submersible Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground [all on one note, stress on horse, round, foot, ground] Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground [Spoken:] Second [or whichever number] verse; this is worse... (When I was a little tot, maybe three, no more than five (slender, little oval pale face, round glasses, short dark hair) my mother went Christmas carol singing with friends, and took me along. Surprised to see me singing along, as she didn't think I knew "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem," she listened closely. I was actually singing "The Horse Stood Around with his Foot on the Ground." So such songs can do some good after all.) |
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07 Mar 10 - 04:43 PM (#2858575) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Rowan You'll find others on the thread Help: Terminology for endless loop songs Cheers, Rowan |
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07 Mar 10 - 04:43 PM (#2858576) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Dave MacKenzie John Jacob Jingle Hyram Smith, Your name's my name too. Whenever I go out, The People start to shout: John Jacob Jingle Hyram Smith..... |
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07 Mar 10 - 08:24 PM (#2858725) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Joe_F Da da da da da da da... |
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07 Mar 10 - 09:24 PM (#2858764) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Charlie Baum To the tune of "LIncoln Lincoln I've been thinkin'..." "I don't care if I go crazy / one two three four five six switch Crazy go I if care don't I / six five four three two one switch..." repeat ad infinitum The "dance" that goes with the song: sing first line while leaning your head on your right hand sing second line while leaning your head on your left hand repeat ad infinitum Learned from my friend Ken (Asher) Arbit --Charlie Baum |
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07 Mar 10 - 10:34 PM (#2858800) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: semi-submersible "Yon Yonson" above has its own thread with many variations, most never-ending, some printable. (Thanks to Open Mike for posting that link with Yon Yonson lyrics in the 2006 Logging Songs thread.) Thanks, Rowan, for the older Ouroborian songs thread link. Over there they talked about calling these either recursive, re-entrant, or iterative songs. I'm no logician, but I can't see those terms fitting this particular circular or loop song category so well: - Iterative songs repeat in a loop, but they don't have to do so infinitely. 99 Bottles of Beer is iterative, though finite. - Re-entrant is a good term, but it makes me think of a song with an introductory part before the looping starts, something like the shape of a numeral 6, like The Bear Went Over the Mountain. - I think "recursive" best describes the self-referential song (e.g. 12th St. Rag, Pennsylvania Polka, Tennessee Waltz): a song about itself, with lyrics paradoxically describing a history in which that song already existed. As in the Norman Rockwell painting of himself painting himself painting... each iteration contains the next one; they don't simply follow one another. (Alternatively, each repeat instead of containing the next could be contained by it. I can't recall an example in song, but Robert Graves contrasts both ideas in a clever short poem "Warning to Children.") Some of these Ourobarias or never-ending/loop songs quote themselves (...that song had this refrain:...) making them recursive too, but others repeat without inclusion (e.g. Lloyd George Knew my Father). If iterations don't progress, if they all stay at the same level, I don't think the song would be recursive. |
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08 Mar 10 - 12:24 AM (#2858835) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: open mike the one that comes to me never ending love for you by http://delaneybramlett.com/ link and lyrics posted here: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=127945&messages=1 |
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08 Mar 10 - 03:58 AM (#2858912) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Splott Man Apologies if these have already been posted... I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles... (Pete Townsend) --- Bluebells are bluebells Bluebells are bluebells Bluebells are bluebells Bluebells are bluebells... --- Be kind to your web-footed friends For that duck may be somebody's mother Be kind to your friends in the swamp When the weather's cold and damp You may think that this is the end Well it's not and to prove that I'm no liar I'll sing it to you once again Only this time it'll be a little higher... etc |
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09 Mar 10 - 03:33 AM (#2859819) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Snuffy The Goldfish (Tune: O God, Our Help In Ages Past) The goldfish is a useless pet It never makes a sound It just goes round and round and round And round and round and round And round and round and round and round And round and round and round And round and round and round and round And round and round and round And round and round and round and round And round and round and round And round and round and round and round And round and round and round And round and round and round and round And round and round and round And round and round and round and round And round and round and round |
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09 Mar 10 - 12:07 PM (#2860190) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Susan of DT Around the corner and under a tree A Sargent Major saind to me I would like to know Who would marry you When every time I look at your face It makes me want to Run around the corner and under a tree... The Goldfish (above) does have verses - only 90% of it is round and round. |
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09 Mar 10 - 01:37 PM (#2860249) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Leadfingers Graham Barnes of Robb Johnson's 'Minstry of Humour'had a string of silly verses for 'The Goldfish' |
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09 Mar 10 - 01:57 PM (#2860266) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: glueman Three brigands sat in a cave, One said to t'other 'Hey Joe, tell us a tale', And this is the tale he told. Three brigands sat in a cave, One said to t'other 'Hey Joe, tell us a tale', And this is the tale he told. Three brigands sat in a cave, One said to t'other 'Hey Joe, tell us a tale', And this is the tale he told. |
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09 Mar 10 - 06:10 PM (#2860551) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: McGrath of Harlow Why are we waiting? |
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10 Mar 10 - 05:45 AM (#2860842) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST,henryp The Gasman Cometh by Flanders and Swann It starts; 'Twas on a Monday morning the gas man came to call. The gas tap wouldn't turn - I wasn't getting gas at all. and leads up to; On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all; So 'twas on a Monday morning that the gasman came to call... As usual, Michael Flanders wrote the words, while in his memoir his partner said, "I took the tune from 'Dashing Away With A Smoothing Iron,' and simply changed it a little bit, just enough to make it copyright Donald Swann! But it is really based on a Folk song." |
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10 Mar 10 - 04:39 PM (#2861338) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Rowan My pleasure, semi-submersible. My main reason for mentioning the thread was the listing there of so many of the ones already appearing on this thread. There are several here, however, that don't appear there, one of which is one from my youth. Its tune is something from opera (but the name of which I've never known) and I'm no good at dots. A doggie stole a sausage coz he was underfed, the cook he saw him steal it and now the poor doggy's dead And all the little doggies were very sad that night, they made a little tombstone and on it they did write "A doggy stole a sausage .... repeated for as long as can be tolerated. Cheers, Rowan |
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11 Mar 10 - 12:41 AM (#2861576) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST,iancarterb The way I remember the song from Rowan's post is A dog came into the kitchen And stole a crust of bread. Cook up with the ladle Beat him til he was dead repeat to end of play, sporadically, from Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Carter |
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11 Mar 10 - 04:12 AM (#2861620) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Tradsinger At school we used to sing (to the tune of 'Bless 'em all') Goodbye horse, goodbye horse I was saying goodbye to my horse And as I was saying goodbye to my horse I was saying goodbye to my horse repeat ad lib until told to shut up. Tradsinger |
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11 Mar 10 - 10:20 AM (#2861832) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Fred Maslan Water dear Henry can be sung endlessly with the non fetcher switching between Henry and Liza. |
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11 Mar 10 - 11:23 AM (#2861869) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST,leeneia She put the lime in the coconut (you can find the words on the web) |
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11 Mar 10 - 12:18 PM (#2861914) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: SINSULL I know a man named Michael Finnegan He grows whiskers on his chinnegan Cuts them off but they grow in again Poor old Michael Finnegan Begin again I know a man... |
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11 Mar 10 - 01:23 PM (#2861946) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Bernard Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, Lend me your grey mare, NO! (Hmmm... p'raps not... I'll think again and get back to you!) |
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12 Mar 10 - 09:42 AM (#2862593) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: fretless The variant on Dave's that I learned is... John Jacob Jingle Heimer Smith, That's my name, 2, 4, 6, 8 Whenever I go out, The People always shout: There goes John Jacob Jingle Heimer Smith. Ta ra ra ra ra ra ra. (repeat...indefinitely) And my daughter's variant on in ichMael's... I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, And I can sing it 'cause I know all the words. (repeat...indefinitely, or at least for the duration of the car ride) |
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24 Mar 10 - 09:58 PM (#2871211) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST,Elithot I was taught a song called the never ending song: This is the song that never ends it goes on and on my freinds some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it forever just because this is the song that never ends it goes on and on... well you get the picture |
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25 Mar 10 - 12:24 AM (#2871293) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: beeliner That's tough What's tough? Life What's life A magazine How much does it cost It costs twenty cents But I only got a nickel That's tough ----------- Where are you going? To the movies. What are you going to see? "Quo Vadis?" What does that mean? Where are you going? (This one is unusual in that the parts reverse with each repetition.) ---------- OH THAT'S GOOD, NO THAT'S BAD (DeWayne Blackwell) Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - 1966 Not long ago I was walking down the street When a woman in a car knocked me off my feet (Ohhhhh, that's bad!) No, that's good! My insurance paid me a lot of dough More money than I'd seen in a year's payroll (Ohhhhh, that's good!) No, that's bad! My doctors' bills is where my money went And all I had left was a very bad limp (Ohhhhh, that's bad!) No, that's good! 'Cause the way I walked got me a role As the marshall's partner on a TV show Pretty young actresses started hanging 'round And every night we'd do the town (Ohhhhh, that's good!) No, that's bad! I ended up back in a hospital bed 'Cause my horse fell on my bad leg (Ohhhhh, that's bad!) No, that's good! 'Cause just when I was feeling my worst I fell in love with a beautiful nurse (Ohhhhh, that's good!) No, that's bad! 'Cause I found out she was the doctor's wife Now I'll be in a wheelchair the rest of my life 'Cause no matter how I pleaded and begged He operated on my good leg (Ohhhhh, that's bad!) No, that's AWFUL!! -------- In which film did Cary Grant do the "You remind me of a man" routine? I don't remember it being set to music. |
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14 Jul 11 - 10:55 PM (#3187968) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST,Mikan22 The variant on Dave's I learned is: John Jacob Jingle Hiemer Smith His name is my name too Whenever we go out The people always shout Here comes John Jacob Jingle Hiemer Smith LALALALALALALALALALA (repeat) Sadly I've only learned that one and The Song That gets on Everybody's Nerves |
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19 Jul 11 - 11:25 PM (#3191132) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST,Unknown Red orange yellow blue I really need to use the loo But it smells like poopoo Come on sing it too Lets sing this over and over Until we forget about the odor Red orange yellow blue etc..etc |
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20 May 12 - 03:27 AM (#3353128) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: Uke Oh has anybody seen, said the thousand-legged worm, Have you seen a leg of mine? If it can't be found, then I'll have to hop around, On the other nine hundred and ninety-nine. Ninety-nine, Ninety-nine, On the other nine hundred and ninety-nine. If it can't be found, then I'll have to hop around, On the other nine hundred and ninety-nine. Oh has anybody seen, said the thousand-legged worm, Have you seen a leg of mine? If it can't be found, then I'll have to hop around, On the other nine hundred and ninety-eight. Ninety-eight, Ninety-eight, On the other nine hundred and ninety-eight. If it can't be found, then I'll have to hop around, On the other nine hundred and ninety-eight. etc. etc. Tune: Polly-wolly-doodle. |
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20 May 12 - 09:22 AM (#3353263) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST "You can't ride in my little red wagon The axels busted and the ass is draggin Second verse same as verse, etc." Think there's more, but we sang that one in boot camp for the Navy and, indeed, it felt like it went on forever. |
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02 Jun 12 - 07:27 PM (#3358556) Subject: RE: Origins: Never-Ending Songs From: GUEST this song is stuck inside my head and it wont go away it started when I first woke up and its been here all daaaay I don't understand it why did this one stick there's so many cooler songs I wish my brain would pick do do do do do do do do do this song is stuck inside my head and I cant get it out what makes it even worse is that that's what this songs about doctor said don't worry it wont last for long but everytime I go to her she's humming this dumb song do do do do do do do do do I hope you never hear it but if you do be strong hey I think this stupid thing is finally gone......NOPE (just keep going faster and faster) |