INSTRUCTIONS FOR PURGING A SONG:
Sing the words of Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan’s Island.
Your brain will have to think of the words of one song and the tune of another while keeping them distinct-yet-together. It will keep your brain busy figuring out the trick so that neither song will get stuck in your head while they shove the other one out of your noggin.
Jesus Christ, Superstar
Do you think you’re what they say you are?
complete lyrics here
Hey, that does work! But now I’m totally obsessed with how odd it is that the words to Amazing Grace fit so well into the tune of Gilligan’s Island. That has to mean…something.
Hmmm.
For those of you who know the Australian National Anthem, it’s also Gilligan-ready. Actually, the Gilligan’s Island version is a vast improvement on the original. It’s also strangely apt. 
[sub]psst… Aussies, you can also sing it to Jimmy Barnes’ Working Class Man![/sub]
Ya see, that Amazing Grace thing wouldn’t work for me. I’m not a big fan of the song (been to too many funerals) so I avoid the song at all costs. I can’t be bursting out in tears every time I think about the Love Boat theme song. (Although I am at the point now where it’s going to make me cry, since I can’t get it out of my friggin’ head!)
Now my smart-aleck research assistants have been slipping pictures of cruise ships under my door, and every once in a while I will catch them humming it. I swear, they’re all out to get me committed. Dirty rats.
Oh well.
…the LOVE BOAT…soon will be making another run…
I don’t wanna grow up
I’m a Toys-R-Us kid
There’s a million toys at Toys-R-Us
That I can play with…
Skerri, all I can do is sympathize. Monday night, I had DaVinci’s Notebook’s Title Of The Song stuck in my head. It’s a brilliant parody of every boy band hit single you ever heard, but when you’ve heard it in your head for the 20th time, it gets annoying.
Happy Heathen, be careful, I still remember the 80’s dreck thread, and I’m not afraid to quote lyrics!
CJ
And then there’s the hole Emily Dickenson/“Yellow Rose of Texas” trick, you might try that…
o/-I would not stop to wait for death, so he kindly stopped for meeee…o/-
CJ -
So, *now[/i you’re ready to play?
well, something like that…
:smack:
You can pretty much switch lyrics/tunes from any two songs in ballad meter. Experiment with these for some hilarious results:
That should keep you queasily occupied for a while. (I especially recommend lyrics to “Gilligan’s Island” to tune of “Stairway.”)
Personally, I find “It’s a Small World” the hands-down worst song for sticking in one’s head.