Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Earworms

From time to time I will get  song stuck in my head.  Well, actually it is happening a lot lately.  Sometimes a snippet of its lyrics will play over and over.  Sometimes just the melody.  And from what I've read that could mean a whole lot of nothing.  But its odd to me what the song ends up being.  A few weeks ago I remarked to Mark that Save The World (a brewery) must have a 70's playlist on their Pandora station.  One of the songs I remember from waaaay back is the one about
Casey Jones (ca. 1971):

Lyrics
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 Central Station 'bout a quarter to nine
Hits River Junction at seventeen two
At a quarter to ten you know it's travelin' again
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
Trouble ahead, Lady in red
Take my advice you'd be better off dead
Switchman's sleeping, train hundred and two is
On the wrong track and headed for you
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
Drive your train, whoo
Trouble with you is the trouble with me
Got two good eyes but you still don't see
Come round the bend, you know it's the end
The fireman screams and the engine just gleams
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
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
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
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better, watch your speed
Trouble ahead, you know, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Songwriters: Jerome J. Garcia / Robert C. Hunter
Casey Jones lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Its nothing I would have listened to by choice, believe me, and its stuck in my head but good.  In the past I've gotten rid of an earworm by listening to it all the way through, then listening to something else right afterwards.  But DAMN IT last weekend, they were playing it again at STW and it is still in my head.  I'm really trying not to think its a problem, and most of what I have read on the topic indicates it is not.  But seriously?  Grateful Dead?  Ugh.  Its like being trapped in the 70's hippie culture via drug-themed music.  Not my favorite thing...
Sorry, Jerry.



1 comment:

  1. You certainly have a more interesting song as your ear worm than I do. I have NOT been able to get my high school fight song out of my head, and it is driving me mad!

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