We should have a sticky for this…
I’ve got this song in my head. It’s, I think, some kind of soul/funk song from the seventies. The main identifying characteristic is that it has a chorus which doesn’t actually contain the words “muffin man” in them, but which, in my head, is sung as though it does. “Duh duh duh, du-duh duh duh, The Muffin Man!” It repeats that.
And that is all I know.
Any idea anyone?
I’m a little hazy on the tune, and I am not aware of any clear way to convey tunes in text on internet fora, but (explanation of notation below) FWIW the tune is something like:
(C-C/D/E\C-C\A\G/D/D:0:)*2
4-3/1/2\2-3\1\2/2/4:8:
Explanation of notation:
Each letter is directly over a number. The letter stands for a pitch. The number stands for a length. In this case I’d say a length of one would be an eighth note, and the song is at a speed of around 120 I think. A little faster actually.
Between the letters (and their corresponding numbers) there is either a slash, a dash, or a colon. A forward slash means the pitch goes up. (In this case never more than an octave, or else I’d have to complicate the notation even more.) A backslash means the pitch goes down. A dash means pitch stays the same. A colon has no specific meaning but is there to fill in where punctuation belongs but is not needed.
In the top line, the number zero stands for a rest.
The parens and the *2 denote a repitition of everythinig in the parens.