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12 Sep 11 - 05:48 PM (#3222178) Subject: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: DrugCrazed I'm worried. It's 104 days to Christmas and all I can hear in my head is "Oh the holly and the ivy, WHEN THEY ARE BOTH FULL GROWN, OF ALL THE TREES THAT ARE IN THE WOOD, THE HOLLY BEARS THE CROWN, Oh the rising of the sun AND THE -" and so on. There has to be something I can do short of a lobotomy? I've occasionally got thoughts that are worth listening to, but the Holly and the Ivy doesn't think so. And before that, it was Sound Your Instruments Of Joy, because of the flaming Watersons. Mudcat, please help. Seriously, I'm contemplating making a time machine and finding it before it was written and stopping it's existence, which would mean that I wouldn't know any songs at a carol session in Sheffield. I'd rather not do that please. |
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12 Sep 11 - 06:24 PM (#3222196) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: RTim Are you getting fatter and growing a white beard?? |
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12 Sep 11 - 06:32 PM (#3222198) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: ClaireBear Which tune are you hearing in your head? That makes all the difference: If it's the one the Watersons use, there may yet be hope for you. But if it's the other one, you may as well bring your brain in for reformatting. |
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12 Sep 11 - 06:35 PM (#3222199) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: ClaireBear How about a nice dog-training song, for a change of pace? Here you go: Shepherds arise... |
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12 Sep 11 - 07:00 PM (#3222211) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Jack Campin The guy I play with in Sandy Bells on Sundays has already started doing Jimmy Shand's "Welcome Christmas Morning" every week, and last Thursday I heard someone finish off a pub session with (the old version of) "Auld Lang Syne". |
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12 Sep 11 - 09:12 PM (#3222253) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST,mg Oh dear..I listened to a bunch of Bing Crosby carols today. Whatever virus is causing this, it has crossed the broad Atlantic..and reached the shores of the Pacific. mg |
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12 Sep 11 - 09:16 PM (#3222256) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST,999 I feel your pain, Drug Crazed. Really. |
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12 Sep 11 - 09:32 PM (#3222266) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Jeri My mother would whistle one line from a Christmas song any time of the year, over and over and over until I complained. I'd get 5 or 10 minutes of quiet, then she'd start again. When I say "one line", I mean the tune part of "Deck the halls with boughs of holly falalalalalalalala" AND THAT WAS IT. These days I don't seem to have much patience, but I somehow managed to not kill her--not even once! |
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12 Sep 11 - 10:18 PM (#3222277) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: JohnB I went for a Blood Test the other day. As I walked into the building (OK Ouch!) I passed a truck which said something about "Rhudolph and Reindeer" on the door. I then sat down opposite a guy with a long white beard and white hair, he also happened to be wearing RED pants and a Red T shirt. From our brief conversation he seemed like quite a nice jovial character. This is a TRUE STORY Honest, JohnB. |
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12 Sep 11 - 10:48 PM (#3222287) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST,999 The, uh, Twelve Days of Christmas. |
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12 Sep 11 - 10:53 PM (#3222290) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST,999 Spike Milligan's 'Silent Night' Enjoy! |
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13 Sep 11 - 05:24 AM (#3222370) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: DrugCrazed Nope, not the Waterson's tune (I don't think so anyway, unless I haven't found it). It's the one that everyone knows. Where can I get a brain format then? I do quite like it due to it's simplicity, but still, so early before christmas? |
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13 Sep 11 - 07:33 AM (#3222416) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Hesk Known, rather aptly, as an "ear worm". It is also catching. Is it your intention to spread it to all Mudcatters? Try "A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut" instead. This could cure you of the "Holly and the Ivy", but.......... |
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13 Sep 11 - 08:59 AM (#3222455) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: DrugCrazed I previously had it with Sally Brown, but I sang that at a session and it went away. Don't think the same tactic will work here. |
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13 Sep 11 - 09:11 AM (#3222463) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST,leeneia We call that an ear-worm. I have two theories. 1. Try to banish it by having other music in your life. If you play or sing, play or sing something else. Or put other music on the radio. Perhaps that will displace it. 2. Take an allergy pill, such as Claretin. When allergies are bad, the cerebral-spinal fluid is under excess pressure. I have a theory that the pressure is irritating the brain cells that store the song in the ear-worm. (When a body part is irritated, it responds by over-doing its job. ) This is my own theory, and it has no basis in medical research or doctor's advice. But doctors probably don't regard ear-worms as important, at least not as important as heart disease, say, or breast cancer. 3. Other people think that if you simple capitulate and sing the song, that it will go away. Not sure if I believe that myself. |
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13 Sep 11 - 10:11 AM (#3222508) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: I don't know I have been listening to Kate Rusbys Sweet Bells album for several weeks now. Got brought it as a early xmas gift!!! It is fantastic. |
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13 Sep 11 - 10:35 AM (#3222535) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST,Ebbie When my daughter was half grown she would complain that I, her mother, was so slow in catching the 'Christmas Spirit' that it wasn't until a week or two after it was all over that I would even sing or whistle the tunes. It was true. Don't know if it is still the case since no one is around to hear me. I did catch myself whistling one line from Winter Wonderland the other day. Maybe you just never noticed before? Perhaps all this time, behind your back your friends have been calling you 'DrugCrazed, the Christmas Sprite? :) |
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13 Sep 11 - 10:51 AM (#3222540) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: open mike i did hear "White Christmas" on the muzak at the doctor's office yesterday.. and it reminded me that soon the stores will all start pushing x-mas... but they will exploit the heck out of halloween first... then down with the orange and black and up with the red and green... |
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13 Sep 11 - 11:00 AM (#3222545) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Reinhard That's tradition, Mike. Every year, Christmas season begins on my birthday when the stores start stocking gingerbread and almind biscuits, end it ends on January 15, the birthday of my niece, when the Christmas tree finally gets thrown out of the house. |
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13 Sep 11 - 12:22 PM (#3222578) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST,crazy little woman Sometimes a song is in my head and I realize that it's being triggered by something in my environment. Last week I woke up with a song we had sung in choir in my head. (I hadn't given that song a thought in years.) It went: Sing we No-el, no-el, no-el! After a while I realized that I had been reading a novel with a character in it named Noelle. That was the trigger. So, Drugcrazed, (OP) see if there's a tie-in such as that between your life and 'The Holly and the Ivy.' Sometimes it helps to know where the song came from. |
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14 Sep 11 - 05:33 AM (#3222969) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Big Al Whittle sounds like an epidemic of acute tinsel-itis...... |
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14 Sep 11 - 10:53 AM (#3223086) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: GUEST Crazy Woman, I think I just had the Folk Song A Day albums on shuffle so just had the Holly and the Ivy playing. It occasionally goes away, but then it's back. I've had Young Banker in my head for ages but I don't mind that one, since you know, it ain't out of season... Big Al, be ashamed for that pun. Be very ashamed. |
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14 Sep 11 - 12:57 PM (#3223153) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Mysha HI, Well, maybe you could sing the The Ivy and the Holly lyrics a bit? It might not rid you of the melody, but at least it would give a somewhat different perspective. (Do we really not have those lyrics, or is it just that I can't find them?) Bye Mysha |
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14 Sep 11 - 02:52 PM (#3223219) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Art Thieme You must nurture and develop the actual recognized phobia that presents itself as a real and actual fear of Christmas. That will take care of your problem. Popularly, having that phobia is known, in psychiatric circles, as being a Noel Coward. I hope this helps! Art Thieme |
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14 Sep 11 - 03:28 PM (#3223239) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: VirginiaTam Try this other song about Holly One member of Alchemy is on mudcat as Capella. |
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14 Sep 11 - 03:30 PM (#3223242) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: VirginiaTam Ohhh Big Al.. do tell just how cute is your tinsel? 8~0 |
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14 Sep 11 - 04:01 PM (#3223259) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Big Al Whittle Do you know this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afUPkM5n0Po |
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14 Sep 11 - 04:56 PM (#3223284) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: DrugCrazed As you may have guessed, blank guest was me, didn't realise I had no cookie. So used to it being there. Mysha, I'd be surprised if we didn't have it in the DT (if not then I may as well add it). I might just give in and record it and hope that it goes away. I could pretend it's a Christmas project or something. I just don't want to annoy my flatmate... |
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14 Sep 11 - 05:56 PM (#3223310) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Mysha Hi, No, I didn't mean the lyrics for The Holly and the Ivy; we do have those. I meant the lyrics for The Ivy and the Holly, to the same tune, as those were the lyrics I suggested you sing. We don't seem to have them, but we do mention they are by Sid Kipper so they should not be too hard to find elsewhere. Bye, Mysha |
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14 Sep 11 - 06:13 PM (#3223314) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: Jeri A bit like: "The Ivy and the Holly." From "Arrest These Merry Gentlemen." Chorus: Oh, the ivy and the holly You'd know if you had seen 'em, Of all the trees that grow in the wood They've no good points between 'em. Oh the Ivy have a berry, as black as any sin, It's not much use in jams and pies, and horrible in gin. Oh the Holly have a stalk, as green as any veg, If you chop it up in salad it will set your teeth on edge. (Chorus) Oh the Ivy have a poison that makes you itch like hell, If you boil it up in stew, it will make you sick as well. Oh the Holly have a root, beneath the earth it rots, And if you suck it slowly, it will bring you out in spots. (Chorus) Oh the Ivy have a leaf, sometimes it's variegated. Sometimes it's not, which goes to show how things get complicated. Oh the Holly have a flower, that's hardly worth a mention. And I don't see why these two trees should get all this attention. Chorus: Oh, the ivy and the holly, When they are both full grown, Oh the ivy needs the holly, for It can't stand up on its own. |
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15 Sep 11 - 10:40 AM (#3223587) Subject: RE: HELP: Can't stop singing xmas songs From: DrugCrazed Mysha, I'll give it a look up today while I'm working in the library. I'm steadily losing my mind not having an internet connection in my house. Maybe that's the problem... |