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>sing it to the tune of "The Irish Washerwoman"..
I'm glad this tune doesn't come readily to mind--it's bad enough having that damnable rhythm Stuck in your Head
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hehe. http://www.obrienclan.com/music/washer_woman.midthis tune was also the one that Isaac Asimov used to pronounce chemical names... 
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Whoops. Oh well, Mike ...
Hi-de-hi, hi-de-ho
Capfka of Wellybro
Writing a dactyl and
Dimeter too;
No need to reference
Encyclopaedia
No point in hoping that
tsuwm won’t sue!
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it's bad enough having that damnable rhythm Stuck in your Head
How does "Stuck in your head" go, tsuwm?
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>Stuck in your Head
this is the last line of a devilishly clever double dactyl..
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tsuwm ba-la, tswum ba-la, tswum saw a likable chance to enlighten all those that have read. these double dactyls do au-to-mag-i-cal-ly get that fun Irish tune Stuck in my head. oh well...
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Just for the sake of commpleteness -
There's also the practice that the first line is characeristically (there's a nice one for you) two nonsense words, paradigmatically (there's another) "Higgledy Piggledy" but anything will do.
Hoggamus Higgamus is another, and has an interesting history (as in Hoggamus Higgamus/Men are polygamous/Higgamus Hoggamus/Women monogamous").
The Irish Washerwoman also has the dubious distinction of fitting exactly the chemical "Paradichloroaminobenzaldehlyde" (a quadruple-dactyl, no less) repeated four or eight times, including the pickups to the next verse.
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...The first line of the first stanza is repetitive nonsense.
Just for the sake of commpleteness -
There's also the practice that the first line is characeristically (there's a nice one for you) two nonsense words
choptliverology <g>
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Wofa-doc missed it and
Made a correction he
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