I’m pretty sure I posted a link to this on Facebook and/or Twitter a couple months ago, when I first encountered it. For some reason it’s found its way back into my head today, and has been positively ringing there for the last several hours. When a song will simply not leave me alone, my solution is to just, well, listen to it. It goes away immediately. So, as much for my own sake as for yours…
Here’s “Don’t Worry, I’m Yours” — DJ Dain’s ingenious mashup of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.” (The ukulele accompaniment, as I understand it, actually makes this a three-way mashup: it came from a recording called “Wonderful World,” by the late Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.)
Lyrics to both songs are below, displayed side by side so you can (if you’re clever and, unlike me, somehow able not to get lost in the catchiness!) follow along with the interleaved audio.
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
(by Bobby McFerrin) Here is a little song I wrote Ain’t got no place to lay your head Here I give you my phone number Ain’t got no cash, ain’t got no style There is this little song I wrote In your life expect some trouble Put a smile on your face |
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I’m Yours
(by Jason Mraz) Well you done done me Well open up your mind and see like me So I won’t hesitate no more, no more Scooch on over closer dear I’ve been spending way too long But I won’t hesitate no more, no more Well open up your mind and see like me |
Nance says
Thanks a lot! Now I’m stuck with it. That mash-up has all the hooks, doesn’t it? Love, a hero, an irresistible music phrase, whistling, little clicky sounds, etc.
John says
Nance, yes, that’s the other way of driving out an obsession-making song: pass it on to someone else!
However, it’s still in my head. I just caught myself whistling it in the men’s room at work — great acoustics, but not exactly a venue where McFerrin, Mraz, Kamakawiwo’ole, and DJ Dain probably hoped to find their work on display.
DarcKnyt says
JES, I’m going to have to take your advice next time a song’s stuck in my head. See if listening to it helps. I never fail to learn something from hanging in your sphere, bud. :)
Ashleigh Burroughs says
We live in different places but our spaces are filled with a catchy bouncy I can’t get it out of my head tune……. I love being inter-web-ly-connected!
Don’t worry……I am yours…..doooo doooo doooo
oy vey.
a/b
marta says
You should listen to this RadioLab podcast about earworms.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/03/21
John says
marta: You aren’t gonna try to tell me that they just happened to repeat THAT two-plus-year-old broadcast a couple days ago, are you? :)
LOVE that word “earworms”!
marta says
Well, they didn’t replay it a few days ago, but they have repeated it in the last year.
John says
marta: I think it’s time for you to acknowledge that your ability, on demand, to recall relevant RadioLab and other good listens verges on a super power.