*hums to herself*

[conuly]

The comments to this post by priyatelka got me to thinking about annoying songs people sing as kids. I eventually came to the conclusion that the most annoying song isn't one of the traditionally annoying ones, like "The Song that Never Ends" or "Infinite Bottles of Beer on the Wall", but one that's annoying to the singer as well. Which led me to this:

...And in this seed (and in this seed)
There was a tree! (there was a tree)
The prettiest tree (the prettiest tree)
That you ever did see (that you ever did see)

With the tree in the seed and the seed in the hole and the hole in the ground
And the green grass grows all around and around and the green grass grows all around.

You keep adding things as the song goes on. Eventually you end up with something like this:

With the germ on the flea and the flea on the feather and the feather on the wing and the wing on the bird and the bird in the egg and the egg in the nest and the nest on the branch and the branch on the tree and the tree in the seed and the seed in the hole and the hole in the ground
And the green grass grows all around and around, and the green grass grows all around.

Now what? What's on the germ? Air? Made up of molecules? Made up of atoms? Made up of subatomic bonds? Which cause a huge-ass nuclear explosion when broken? And destroy the planet (the prettiest planet that you ever did see...)?

Or maybe inside the germ is a disease. Which enters a lung. Which causes a plague. Which kills off the people. Even the ugly ones.

See what I mean? VERY annoying song, that.

Comments

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Annoying songs are the ones that get stuck in your head. Like the theme from Sanford & Son. Or the Girl from Ipanema.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Hey! I like the theme to Sanford and Son.

Don't be hatin'!

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you missed a couple steps on the Green Grass song:

With the germ on the flea and the flea on the feather and the feather on the wing and the wing on the bird and the bird in the egg and the egg in the nest and the nest on the twig and the twig on the branch and the branch on the limb and the limb on the tree and the tree in the seed and the seed in the hole and the hole in the ground
And the green grass grows all around and around, and the green grass grows all around.

[conuly]

Did not! You're just adding stuff! *whines*

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

Speaking of annoying, can you find the blinding grammatical error on this layout? (http://www.livejournal.com/community/bang__yourdead/) It makes my brain hurt.

[conuly]

Bang my dead? Bang my dead what, exactly? That's not really my thing....

[jean-prouvaire.livejournal.com]

Aaaack.

I fucking hate that song.

And I was a Girl Scout. So it was like our anthem.

*curls up in a ball and whimpers*

[conuly]

Ack! Sorry! *hugs*

Here, want a cookie?

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

Gah.. That brings me back to the days of doing the Barney song with my little brother, which really wasn't cool.. You know, hugging him when it said "with a great big hug" etc.. Though it was cute watching him dance to all the little songs.

[conuly]

That's a travesty, that is. The song is really "this old man". I have no idea why they want to fuck with little kids like that.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

i've never heard that song before. i wonder if i can find it (or a clip of it) on the internet so i know how the melody goes. i'd love to sing it just to get on my boyfriend's nerves. :)

now i usually just go with "sally the camel", "ten in the bed" or "little bunny foo foo"

[conuly]

Mostly you're just reciting it, faster and faster. The only part with a melody is the part that goes "and the green grass grows all around and around, and the green grass grows all around", which goes up four notes and down again.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

eee that song reminds me of this tape (record?) my sisters and I had when we were kids. I loved that song as a kid. I'll probably get it stuck in my head now and annoy my bf by singing it constantly, but that was a happy little memory! :)

You said the exact thing I was thinking about the underscore to the mod of that community. I hate rating communities anyway, but ones like that are awful. I love this entry too: http://www.livejournal.com/community/bang__yourdead/5296.html - it made me chuckle. :P

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

You can have a cell wall on the bacteria, and the cell wall is made of peptidoglycan and there is some lysozyme that is digesting the peptidoglycan and the lysozyme came from the tear of a man that wept for the dead bird... et cetera.

[conuly]

Thank you.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I think I'm glad I have never heard "the song that never ends" except on a very annoying commercial.

That "green grass grows all around" song sounds similar to "The Rattling Bog." I have that on a CD by the Irish Descendants. Only it does actually end, probably because they wanted to actually fit more songs on the CD. :)

[conuly]

Yeah, but theirs sounds nicer now I've looked it up. The grass growin' round song doesn't have any real melody, it's just a long chant. Like the monkey song that spawned this post!

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

You know, this is a bit like:

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd, to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
What a hog! To swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog ...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse -
She's dead, of course.

[conuly]

Didn't you forget the cow?

Kinda sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Sorta.

[zarriq.livejournal.com]

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 (bum bum bum)

[repeat until the earth crashes into the sun]

Blackadder goes forth

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Does remind me of Baldrick's poem:

Baldrick: "This one is called The German Guns"
George: "Oh, spiffing! Yes, let's hear that!"
Baldrick: "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!.........."

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Annoying songs are the ones that get stuck in your head. Like the theme from Sanford & Son. Or the Girl from Ipanema.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Hey! I like the theme to Sanford and Son.

Don't be hatin'!

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you missed a couple steps on the Green Grass song:

With the germ on the flea and the flea on the feather and the feather on the wing and the wing on the bird and the bird in the egg and the egg in the nest and the nest on the twig and the twig on the branch and the branch on the limb and the limb on the tree and the tree in the seed and the seed in the hole and the hole in the ground
And the green grass grows all around and around, and the green grass grows all around.

[conuly]

Did not! You're just adding stuff! *whines*

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

Speaking of annoying, can you find the blinding grammatical error on this layout? (http://www.livejournal.com/community/bang__yourdead/) It makes my brain hurt.

[conuly]

Bang my dead? Bang my dead what, exactly? That's not really my thing....

[jean-prouvaire.livejournal.com]

Aaaack.

I fucking hate that song.

And I was a Girl Scout. So it was like our anthem.

*curls up in a ball and whimpers*

[conuly]

Ack! Sorry! *hugs*

Here, want a cookie?

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

Gah.. That brings me back to the days of doing the Barney song with my little brother, which really wasn't cool.. You know, hugging him when it said "with a great big hug" etc.. Though it was cute watching him dance to all the little songs.

[conuly]

That's a travesty, that is. The song is really "this old man". I have no idea why they want to fuck with little kids like that.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

i've never heard that song before. i wonder if i can find it (or a clip of it) on the internet so i know how the melody goes. i'd love to sing it just to get on my boyfriend's nerves. :)

now i usually just go with "sally the camel", "ten in the bed" or "little bunny foo foo"

[conuly]

Mostly you're just reciting it, faster and faster. The only part with a melody is the part that goes "and the green grass grows all around and around, and the green grass grows all around", which goes up four notes and down again.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

eee that song reminds me of this tape (record?) my sisters and I had when we were kids. I loved that song as a kid. I'll probably get it stuck in my head now and annoy my bf by singing it constantly, but that was a happy little memory! :)

You said the exact thing I was thinking about the underscore to the mod of that community. I hate rating communities anyway, but ones like that are awful. I love this entry too: http://www.livejournal.com/community/bang__yourdead/5296.html - it made me chuckle. :P

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

You can have a cell wall on the bacteria, and the cell wall is made of peptidoglycan and there is some lysozyme that is digesting the peptidoglycan and the lysozyme came from the tear of a man that wept for the dead bird... et cetera.

[conuly]

Thank you.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I think I'm glad I have never heard "the song that never ends" except on a very annoying commercial.

That "green grass grows all around" song sounds similar to "The Rattling Bog." I have that on a CD by the Irish Descendants. Only it does actually end, probably because they wanted to actually fit more songs on the CD. :)

[conuly]

Yeah, but theirs sounds nicer now I've looked it up. The grass growin' round song doesn't have any real melody, it's just a long chant. Like the monkey song that spawned this post!

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

You know, this is a bit like:

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd, to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
What a hog! To swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog ...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse -
She's dead, of course.

[conuly]

Didn't you forget the cow?

Kinda sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Sorta.

[zarriq.livejournal.com]

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 (bum bum bum)

[repeat until the earth crashes into the sun]

Blackadder goes forth

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Does remind me of Baldrick's poem:

Baldrick: "This one is called The German Guns"
George: "Oh, spiffing! Yes, let's hear that!"
Baldrick: "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!.........."