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the Ramblin’ entry

Thank you, Jerry Jeff Walker, for making my drive to work much more pleasant (did I mention I sorta fixed my radio? I get the right speaker now. Woot! grinnod )

Yeah, ramblin’, scramblin’
Tryin’ to get my mind untangled
But I never seen nothing in the whole wide world
That’ll give you more trouble than tryin’ to love a girl.

Like most everybody I’ve had bad luck
You know I’ve been down and out and didn’t have a buck
I’ve been hired and fired, loved and mistrusted
Three or four women left me busted

Took my money
Took my lovin’ (yodel) who hoo hooo
Took my toothpaste too.

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My car doesn’t have a radio right now. Well, it hasn’t for a couple months. A child (who shall remain nameless) shoved something into the cassette deck, along with a casette, and now? nothing. The tape won’t play, and it won’t come out to let the radio play.

So.

Why am I telling you this? Because I tend to get stuck with these earworms. Sometimes, it’s a musical line (yesterday it was the theme to Hawaii 5-0, for example) sometimes it’s lyrics (Oink, Oink, Zoopals!).

Today? It’s been a treat.

Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind

This old engine makes it on time
Leaves Hazard Station ’bout a quarter to nine
Hits Trouble Junction at seventeen to
At a quarter to ten you know it’s drivin’ again

The thing is, this song will play itself over and over and over again in my mind, and sometimes transmogrify into something else (”War, what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin’”) but usually just repeating.

And you know that notion just crossed my mind

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Shoot me. Shoot me now.

Since sometime yesterday evening, I have had Don’t Let it End, by none other than Styx, stuck in my head.

Did I say yesterday? I think I did. That means it has been playing off and on for fifteen hours.

Please, please, somebody tell me how to get rid of this song! I know it’s not very good to beg, but dammit!

What will I do
If you say we’re through
I need you to stay, honey
Don’t let it end this way.

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