Regarding the "Tulips from Hamster Jam" quote.
What I was recalling was joke, and not a song.
Forgive me! But it went like this:

"A chap has a hamster and it goes missing.
Now, about the time it disappeared he was making some home-made jam.
I short time after he made the jam, some flowers begin growing from the jam.
He is puzzled, and gets in a horticultural expert to try to explain the phenomena.
The expert ponders the problem for a while and then says, what you have here is...