Stuck in the Middle (Ear)

Back in the '70s I was in a high school theater production that involved interpretations of a number of children's books. "May I Bring a Friend?" was done as a spoken chorus with high and low voices, boys and girls voices and a triangle.

Today I have had a running chorus of:

The King and Queen invited me

To come to their house on Monday (Ding!)

For Tea.

I told the Queen

And the Queen told the King

I had a friend

I wanted to bring.

The King told the Queen,

"My dear, my dear...

Any friend of our friend

Is (Ding!) welllllllllllllcome here.

So

I brought

My friend.

Why, after more than 30 years, has this popped up amidst the flotsam and jetsam of my psyche?