Please eat your own porridge, and do not steal it from bears

Having a song in your head is bad enough, but I have a tendency to get songs in my head with completely wrong lyrics that seem to pop out of nowhere. For example, when I get "Yankee Doodle" in my head¹, it's never the first verse, but a mangled version of the second verse that goes:

Father and I went down to camp
Along with Captain Stubing
And there we bought four hundred fifty
Feet of copper tubing

I don't know where this came from in the first place, but it has replaced the actual lyrics in my head, to the point where they looked totally unfamiliar when I read them on Wikipedia just now.

Anyway, the whole reason I wanted to write this post was to get this current instance of mangled lyrics written down and hopefully out of my head, where it has been lodged all weekend:

Come on, kitchen storage
Girls, eat your porridge

You're welcome.

¹ I get "Yankee Doodle" in my head more often than you'd think, thanks to a teacher who used the song as an example for how long you should wash your hands.

srah - Sunday, 3 October 2010 - 8:10 PM
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Comments (2)

gravatar Elisabeth - October 8, 2010 - 10:47 PM -

Come on, kitchen storage are 1000x better lyrics than the original.

gravatar alfie - October 15, 2010 - 1:56 PM -

I blame Dad for the Captain Stubing thing. I'm not sure he knows the real lyrics to any songs anymore.

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