ditty

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.

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.”

A lovely chamber-folk ditty about two lovers keeping painful track of each other long after the end of their toxic romance.

The song opened on cue with a “little ditty about Jack and Diane,” but then the music abruptly stopped.

The music was Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice,” a weird little ditty that did make you want to dance.