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 |
