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Let's start with Dolly Parton's own personal favourite, her 1971 acoustic country-folk ditty, Coat of Many Colors, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

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 ● Mar. 11, 2026

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 ● Dec. 23, 2025

The 18th-century artwork, appropriately named “Purrquoise” by fans in an online poll, was shown dancing across images of other feline figures, to the nearly 20-year-old ditty “The Kitty Cat Dance.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

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 "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Hopkins kept playing, and even wrote little ditties on staff paper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The second season of Nida Manzoor’s comedic masterpiece about an all-female Muslim punk band is a ride of emotional highlights and jaunty fast-n-loud ditties.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

I think Sethi wants to emphasize that these ditties are fantasies, but the overall effect is too phony.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

Strait and the 11-piece band spent much of the night vacillating between up-tempo ditties that often turn a bit of sorrow into a winking good time and slower, more heavy-hearted fare.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

So to cheer myself I would often make up ditties.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The Cardinals' Dizzy Dean promptly dittied: "Paul and Me and Parmelee," bragged that the three of them would win 60 games.

From Time Magazine Archive