When I woke up Saturday I kept hearing these lines from a song,
Bell bottom trousers, coat of navy blue.
I love a sailor, and he loves me too.
Just those two lines and the words aren’t quite right, but it’s clearly from this song:
I have no idea why it popped into my mind. I don’t remember what I had been dreaming, but I’m almost certain it had nothing to do with the navy.
Anyway, most people would call this an ear worm, but I don’t like that term. I don’t like worms, and when songs play in my head they’re almost always cheerful, and they make me happy. This one certainly does…I still hear it from time to time during the day.
October 12, 2020
Songs are always popping in my head.
Hopefully ones that brighten your day. 🙂
I often wake up with a song in my head. Sometimes I can connect it to a dream but sometimes not. Lately it’s often been because I have been listening to music while exercising and some of those songs stick.
This one was weird because it was for so long ago.
I’ve never heard this one before. I get songs stuck in my head for one reason or another. Most of them are welcome though
That’s the main thing, that they brighten our days.
I’ve never heard this before. but it’s a cheerful little tune!
and it looks like John Boy started the record. 😀 xo
I love it because it’s so cheerful. 🙂
Feeling better to know I’m not the only one! While washing my face the other morning, I suddenly began singing, “A White Sportcoat, and a Pink Carnation.” A few months ago it was, “Blueberry Hill.” Maybe my plumbing’s haunted. 🙂
I remember those! I love them too.
That’s a new song to us too, but we enjoyed it. Mom says it is funny how a tune will come to mind and then stick around for a long time.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
They can brighten our days. 🙂
To this day bell bottom pants are still my favorite fashion from the past. Never heard that song before. It’s crazy the things that pop into heads when we first wake up.
Some are more understandable than others. This one is a mystery, which adds to its charm.
Never heard this ever but now you’ve put it into my head! Blast!
It’s a good one. What would you rather be thinking about? Hopefully not current events? 🙂
Well that’s a surprise I thought the title would be related to bell bottomed strides and my take is “I prefer a stove pipe style”
🙂
I well remember Guy Lombardo & his orchestra, but not this song. I thought he was before the era of bell-bottoms!
From the web:
In boot camp, we actually had to demonstrate the ability while swimming to turn the pants into floatation devices.
Thank you for telling us that, Mike. That’s fascinating.
I never heard this ditty but I did wear those trousers blue.
I actually preferred the 1970s and 80s dress uniform, which was a double-breasted uniform similar to what the other service wore. However, the “crackerjack” traditional uniform returned after I got. Fortunately, the need to wear the dress uniform was rare, though I did wear it 6 times on flights across the Atlantic and 6 times back.
I wonder why they changed back?
Tradition won out. Seems like most sailors preferred the old uniform.
Along with the new style uniform, the 70s sailor could wear his hair longer and even have a beard and mustache. Beer was allowed in the barracks and sailors didn’t have to have a “liberty” card to be able to leave the base or ship. Those and other changes apparently caused a lowering of morale in the more senior enlisted sailors who felt that the discipline they were responsible for had suffered.
I’m not an expert by any means for what the current requirements are, but what I know is mustaches are allowed but no beards and hair must be trimmed shorter. The only recent place that I could find where a liberty card has been required in recent years is Japan but that is probably because of issues between the locals and the military that have occurred. Beer in the barracks was probably partially because the legal drinking age on military bases was 18 and most of the people who lived in the barracks were younger enlisted sailors.
I still wear a beard most of the time and, even though we met not long after I got out of boot camp, Karen has never seen me without a mustache.
Thanks for the information. I really appreciate it.
I am not real fond of the term earworm either…we need to think of a better one.
I agree, something more appreciative. 🙂
I’ve never heard that song! Thanks for sharing.
Sure. It’s bouncy. 🙂
I remember the fashion for bell bottom trousers in the 1970s. I had several pairs myself. I wonder why those two lines popped into your head? There can’t be any sailors anywhere near your apartment!
There is no rational reason I would think of that song. My dream didn’t have anything to do with sailors or the sea.
When I get an old song stuck in my head and I don’t even know where it came from come from it drives me crazy because I can’t stop it and I think that’s why they call it an earworm because it just keeps boring in and boring in and boring in and you can’t stop it
Yuck! 🙁