This is the song that never eeends

Icalasari

It just goes on and on my frieeends
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was
And soon they were stuck singing it forever JUST because...

Nyktos

I find it interesting how the first half of the last line has so many different variations (around here it's "and then they kept on singing it") despite the rest of the song not having any as far as I can tell.

LouieW

Going off of what Nyktos said, the Lamb Chop version apparently is called "The Song that Doesn't End" instead of "The Song that Never Ends."

glennmagusharvey

Curiously, it's the last line that I never quite parsed, and thus ended up having to fill with my own text.

Bee

Heehee.  I remember scanning the lyrics to some of my music teacher's more awful schlocky songs.  It turned amusing in hindsight when I learned what common meter is, and it's up there with House of the Rising Sun and Banned From Argo for things I use to make fun of overly simplistic and repetitive songs.

Kraken

I like singing it.

glennmagusharvey

IJBM: People don't notice all the other songs that never end.  Like anything that loops, such as most videogame pieces.  And stuff like Pachelbel's Canon.

Kraken

That's because video game music not ending is part of the piece's very nature. It's not really meant to be noticed.

'The Song That Never Ends' calls attention to its nature as never-ending, which causes the association between the feeling of annoyance and the melody of the song.