A good example of what the Earworm Fairy often brings, this morning I woke up with a single phrase from the Cat Stevens song Wild World:  

"….There's a lot of bad and be-ware…" 

It is on a continuous loop, and is driving me bonkers.  (Particularly the word beware, the two syllables of which are both being hit with the same intensity.)

I have no feelings one way or another for Cat Stevens.  In my vast collection of music, I have but a scant five or six Stevens' songs, all of which appear on either Soundtrack albums or Seventies collections.  While I'd never turn the dial if one of his songs came on the radio, I just never caught Stevens' fever and climbed aboard his Peace Train.  (The pun is the highest form of humor.  Look it up.)

Why, oh why is "…there's a lot of bad and be-ware…" playing in my head?  And why won't it at least get to the chorus?  At least with the hook it would not be quite as annoying as I sing it over-and-over while washing the coffee pot and mugs.  

But alas, the hook never comes, and when I try and force it, the best I get is: "Oh baby baby it's a… Lot of bad and be-ware." 

Be-ware indeed...