It is relentless, looping, rewinding and replaying again, bouncing off the walls my skull, crowding out any rational thought until all that remains is pure madness. It is the do-do, do-do-do song.
I was at a restaurant with my girlfriend when in the background, I heard someone singing it. I knew it I had heard it before – some TV show or movie, but I couldn’t place where. And so it began. Unable to tuck it back in it’s appropriate mental file, it quickly spread like a virus to every area of my brain.
It goes like this:
Do-do
Do-do-do,
Do-do
Do-do-do,
Do-do, Do-do,
Do-do,
Do-do-do
That’s it. No other lyrics, no instruments, just an endless pile of Do.
Desperate for help, I sang it to my girlfriend in the hopes she could peg it. It took her a few minutes, but she was eventually able to recognize that I am insane.
So I did a Google search for it. Quite helpful. Has anyone seen my grain of sand? I dropped it on the beach somewhere. The search: Song, “Do-do, do-do-do” resulted in 20,600 matches. Which is a little scary because it means there are 20,600 other idiots like me who think they can convey the sound of a note with the word “Do”.
There were variations of course. Do-de-dah, Do-do-dah, Na-nee-nah-do-dah (who could forget that song!). Some people actually had more info on the songs they were looking for. Songs about or sung by monkeys, hamsters, Jamaicans, dinosaurs, Franki Valli, The Beatles and of course Pokeman. But no one knows the name of their respective mind-bending tune, each cursed to their own private hell of “Do-do, Do-do-do”.
Of course no one actually had my “Do-do, do-do-do”, but I’ve only eliminated 15 of the the 20,600 matches so far. I may have to give up a few things to find it – work, social life, using the bathroom to relieve myself, etc. but by god I will find it. Until then…
Do-do, Do-do-do.