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I've had this tune in my head for at least three days now.

Carly Simon
from the LP "Boys In The Trees" 1978 Elektra Records

De Bat (Fly In Me Face)

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Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat don't come out
And fly in me face tonight

Well I come home from a party
And I'm feelin' a little spaced
And I walk on in the kitchen and
A bat fly in me face

Well de bat come down the chimney
You see he wait in the fireplace
When he hear that I'm getting a little snack
De bat fly in me face

Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat he don't come out
And fly in me face tonight

De bat he rat got wings
All the children know that
What I need to know from the lord
Is how you get de wings on the cat

They say a bat's got radar
And he can fly through fan
But what I am afraid of is
That he got another plan
To fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat he don't come out
And fly in me face tonight

One thing I forgot to tell you
About the human race
Everybody get a little upset
When a bat fly in they face

Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat he don't come out
And fly in me face tonight

M=P/T

Frank on the left, Nicolas on the right. (Yes, they were pals.)

From Nicolas Slonimsky's bio, "Perfect Pitch":

"I mumbled the lines from Virgils's Aeneid, 'Forsan et haed olim meminisse iuvabit' ('parhaps even this will some day be remembered with pleasure'). The line refers to the descent into Hades. I also clung tenaciously to my favourite formula of William James, that correlated the strength of remembrance with time elapsed since the event: M=P/T. P in the equation can stand either for Pleasure or Pain, as the case might be. The factor M (for Memory) is directly proportionate to P. The element T (for Time) is in inverse ratio to M; the farther the event recedes in memory, the less painful, (pleasurable), it becomes."