Ear worms.
You know what I mean when I say that? Not actual WORMS, silly!
Little dittys that get stuck in your head and you just carry them around with you all day or even weeks?
I get them all the time. Sometimes they are ancient tunes, nursery rhymes and even jump-rope poems that run over and over in my mind and just won't leave! And, when I say ancient- I do mean ancient!!
Growing up Keyton was unique in that we listened to Victrola and Edison records and cylinders from the late 1800's to the mid 1900's that belonged to our great-grandparents. There were some really silly songs and then of course the classics and opera.
One of those silly songs that just got stuck today- was Alice.
Alice, where art thou going?
Upstairs to take a bath.
Alice with legs like toothpicks
And a neck like a giraffe.
Alice in the bathtub.
Alice pulled the plug.
Oh my goodness, oh my soul,
There goes Alice down the hole.
Naturally... I had to google it! Turns out... this may have been written about Pres. Teddy Roosevelt's daughter!
Written by: Gumble Heelan, 1906
MP3 sung by Billy Murray & the Columbia Quartet (while I did find other mp3's with credits to a Haydn quartet)
Strangely... the words I recall are to a playground ditty and not the actual words in the song!
Notice the strong resemblance of our dog, Wrigley, to Nipper (pictured above!)... maybe that's why we love him so much? Nah.... he's pretty wonderful all on his own!
1 comment:
I actually knew the "Alice" ditty, only we sang Anna Mae. It was a staple song at Camp Paron each summer. We sang it in the cafeteria line while we waited to be served. Funny, huh?
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