Back when I was in elementary school, we had a music teacher named Mrs. Z (I never knew her full last name).
She had us read the words out of book containing songs when we sang it.
One was called “The Ballad of Don Gato”. The chorus contained the words “meow meow meow” sang in cadence like “cha cha cha”.
It was a song about a cat who paraded around the rooftops at night meowing like cats do to attract the attention of female cats. He ended up falling off the roof and dying which made all the female cats sad.
When all the female cats cried and meowed, this somehow brought Don Gato back to life and he strutted around on the rooftops with renewed vigor and machismo.
Whenever anyone says the word “barges” I get a song called “Barges” stuck in my head. It’s awful. The kids at a summer camp I used to work at sang this and it was really annoying.
At a school I previously taught at, everytime a student had a birthday, instead of singing “Happy Birthday” they’d sing a song that sounded like this. I have no idea where this version originated-
(sung in a minor almost dirge like way)
It’s your birthday, happy birthday
People dying everywhere
Suffering dying and despair
It’s your birthday, happy birthday
