Help! I Can't Get the Dick Van Dyke Theme Song Out of My Head!

Yesterday on the Today Show, Matt Lauer interviewed actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke who has published a new memoir. It was a lovely interview and it brought back a lot of sweet memories of Van Dyke's famous sitcom as well as his delightful role in the Disney film "Mary Poppins". But then, Lordy! they reprised the theme music from the sitcom and Mr. Van Dyke sang the actual words to the song–words written by comedian Mory Amsterdam. Okay, lovely also. But now the song is in my head like a memorized telephone number when you're a kid. It goes on and on. I'm struggling, I tell you. I'm starting to weep like a man slicing onions. I'll confess to almost anything. I wonder if they use this trick at Gitmo?

S.K.

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