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This song has haunted me for 16 years!

On the Ning Nang Nong

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There’s a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can’t catch ‘em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

Spike Milligan

Over the years i’ve sung the words in my head to various tunes. Right now it’s Star Wars Imperial March. I have never been able to get it out of my head and often find myself singing it to myself without knowing it. I’ve had songs stuck in my head before, but nothing for 16 years…… (i know its a poem not a song but it’s always to a tune in my head) How am I going to get rid of it??? I also used to count everything i did, and still do sometimes. Are they related problems?

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staabis offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 Add Friend #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (9 minutes after post)

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Mi…

Milligan also wrote verse, considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as “absolutely immortal - greatly in the tradition of Lear”[2]. His most famous poem, On the Ning Nang Nong, was voted the UK’s favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear[3]. This nonsense verse, set to music, became a favourite Australia-wide, performed week after week by the ABC children’s programme Playschool. Milligan included it on his album No One’s Gonna Change Our World in 1969 to aid the World Wildlife Fund. In December 2007 it was reported that, according to OFSTED, it is amongst the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK.[4]

If you go to the site above, some of the words and phrases are linked so you can probably get or hear the music.

Hope that helps.
jim

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (14 minutes after post)

Well, i would like to get it out of my head, not in. The original music is also well and truly ingrained in my head :| :| :| argh!

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (22 minutes after post)

OH! Oops. sorry… Thinking HMmmm…
Maybe, try finding another goofy song (purple people eater?) and get that going then listen to other stuff that you like. I’m thinking it’s like emptying a pail of water by filling it with sand. Forces the water out.

I also used to count everything i did, and still do sometimes. Are they related problems?

It’s possible you have a mild form of OCD, obsessive/compulsive disorder. A doctor could tell you more and line you up with a specialist. Yes, the horrid i> b>head shrinker /b> /i>

Good luck
jim

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (28 minutes after post)

lol purple people eater. yes it seems that all my songs from early primary school seem to haunt me to some extent. Myabe I had some kind of bad experience i don’t recall that did something to my brain and sent me crazy….

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 58 minutes after post)

The Sesame Street song is forever embedded into my brain.

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An Unknown Location | 1 week, 5 days ago (1 year, 4 months after post)

And it’s still in my head…. =P

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