Songs that you sing

I often hum away to myself, or even sing if I don't think anyone can hear me. Walking the dog yesterday and I found myself humming a song which I had not heard or thought of for years. Not a pop song, but the beginning of a short opera which I was once involved in.
That made me wonder how these things come to us. Why that song then? There are lots of other bits of music that I often sing/hum, but this was completely out of the blue, and not associated with anything as far as I can tell.

Anyone else had this experience?

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Oh yes,I can wake up with any music in my head and it could stay with me all day, mostly have to say Irish songs and am amazed that I know most of the words.

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I often have tunes from the musical 'Oklahoma!' stuck in my head... from a school drama production I took part in at the age of 14. I know one trigger is passing a field of corn - "the corn is as high as an elephant's eye..." and it's with me for the day.

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Largo al Factotum (from Rossini's 'Barber of Seville'), Va Pensiera (from Verdi's Nabucco), Warshavianka, Seven Drunken nights, All sold for beer and tobacco (The Dubliners), Avanti Popolo, songs from Flannigan & Allan.

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I wake up every day with a song in my head and start singing it. They range from Rock and roll to Musicals and from folk songs to Arias.

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It is strange how songs come into your head for no apparent reason. Some little familiar thing must remind us and there it is. At the moment I can't get "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker out of my head - woke up with it this morning and it will likely be with me all day now. It's a catchy tune, but with slightly naughty lyrics.

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We have the radio on at work, there is only two of us in the office so we can have the radio on all day and i sing along to what ever is playing.
I also wake up in the morning singing away it makes me wonder why the songs come into your head as you wake up.

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When a song remains in your head for a long time, that's called an ear worm Strange name for it and I imagine it wiggling its way around inside the head!

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Quite the variety there!

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I find myself singing "Bye Bye Miss American Pie" whilst driving just the right speed to drive to in London traffic,and very often Johnny Walkers programme on Radio 2 sets me off down memory lane,especially coming back home on the motorway from dogs shows.