We all suffer from them: those tunes that come, unbidden, into your head and steadfastly refuse to leave until ousted by another random nuisance.

More often than not, my current earworm will be the song that I’m planning to use for the next Song Lyric Sunday. This may or, less frequently, may not be perfectly acceptable.

But what are we to make of this week’s challenge, which is to write about a song that gets stuck in your head? Especially as Jim – as is unquestionably his right as our host – has taken first dibs on what may be the only song which squares this particular circle – Kylie Minogue’s ‘I Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’.

Without another theme to focus on to provide some direction, perforce we will have to resort to the non SLS-related instances of what is also known as Stuck Song Syndrome. Over the years these have been legion, for me at any rate.

At time of writing, the thing I’m struggling to eject from my brain is ‘Going On An Adventure’, which is the theme tune of a Channel 5 series called ‘The Good Ship Murder’, a crime drama set on a cruise ship.

British readers may be familiar with this programme and its utterly ludicrous premise (retired police detective with ambitions to be a cabaret singer solves murders in every port of call and always manages to get back to the boat in time to end the programme by performing some cabaret-type song to rapturous applause from the audience in the Starlight Lounge or whatever its called).

I’m still not sure whether its tongue-in-cheek or falls into the so-bad-it’s-good category. Either way, it’s harmless chewing gum for the brain.Anyway, here it is. Perhaps tellingly, I couldn’t find the lyrics anywhere on line, but you’ll get the gist.

Song Lyric Sunday 15 February 2026