ditty

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It has even inspired an options market ditty: When the VIX is high, it’s time to buy; when it’s low, it’s time to go.

From Barron's

The record opens with a spirited British vaudeville-esque rendition of an original ditty called “Everywhere it’s Christmas,” which informs the listener that “Everywhere it’s Christmas/at the end of every year.”

From Salon

Consider the little ditty my son was taught to memorize in the first grade:

From The Wall Street Journal

The tune for this ditty was suspiciously like a tune from Pirates on Holiday, the nautical operetta whose first act Penelope and the children had witnessed while visiting London some months earlier.

From Literature

The song evokes the same reassuring warmth generated by that indelible “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” ditty “It’s You I Like,” especially as reinterpreted by Sherie Rene Scott in her 2010 Broadway show “Everyday Rapture.”

From Los Angeles Times