Here are more of our reader’s top choices for songs they love to hate! Silly, repetitive and definitely earworms, these songs might be fun to share during a ride in the car – or not!
Both of these are “infinite loop” songs. The first one comes from a reader in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where they have plenty of bears and mountains.
The Bear Went Over The Mountain
The bear went over the mountain
The bear went over the mountain
The bear went over the mountain
And what do you think he saw?
He saw another mountain
He saw another mountain
He saw another mountain
And what do you think he did?
Back to… verse 1
And who could forget that not-so-merry old kind of England?
Henry The 8th
I’m Henry The 8th, I am
Henry the 8th, I am I am
I got married to the widow next door
She’s been married 7 times before
And everyone was a Hen- er – y
Wouldn’t be a Willy or a Sam (oh no!)
I’m an 8th old man, I’m Henry
Henry the 8th, I am I am
Henry the 8th, I am I am
(Spoken: Second verse, same as the first
A little bit louder and a little bit worse)
That last part really says it all!
And although these songs are not “infinite loops”, here are two more songs that kept coming up in our readers comments. The first was Magdalena, Hagdalena- or one of her many incarnations. You can read about all of them, right here:
http://www.tinytappingtoes.com/family-fun-2/magdalena-hagdalena-and-her-many-aliases/
And “Do Your Ears Hang Low?” and it’s many, many verses. You can find a post about that one, here:
http://www.tinytappingtoes.com/babies-and-music/silly-songs-for-kids-do-your-ears-hang-low/
And, let us know if we’ve missed any of your favorites…!
