With a Song in My Heart...

I posted this one on Facebook the other day.  It is hilariously true!  My mother used to remark to me
"It's a shame you can't remember your schoolwork the way you can those silly song lyrics!"

I still have those song lyrics in my brain. Here are a few that immediately float to the surface:

1. To know,know, know him is to love,love,love him...
2. Macarthur Park is melting in the dark, all the sweet green icing flowing down...
3. Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen...
4. When your heart's on fire, you must realize, smoke gets in your eyes
5. I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again...
6. So ferry across the Mersey, for this land's the place I love, and here I'll stay...
7. Sunshine came softly through my window today; could have stepped out easy, but she changed my way...
8. Oh yes, I'm the great pretender...
9. We'll sing in the sunshine, we'll laugh every day...
10. Country Roads, take me home to the place I belong...

What do these songs have in them , that they stay in my mind, so easy to retrieve?

There are many many more... songs we sang in Glee Club in grade school and high school... songs I sang in folk music groups... Church songs... Christmas carols... funny songs my mother sang to me before I even went to school... all those songs from my teenage years...