It's a book title ("I Don't Know How She Does It"), a movie (ditto) and refrain sung of parents everywhere who are taking on the usual challenges of life and work and family and then some.
"I'm dreaming of a white president," goes its refrain, sung by Mr. Newman with an unabashed enthusiasm.
His last words have all the melancholy sonority of the refrain sung by Poe's raven: "Nevermore".
His chosen hymn is dayenu (roughly translated as "that alone would have been enough for us"), the traditional refrain sung at the end of the Passover Seder recounting the blessings bestowed by God on the Jews liberated from Egypt.
"Old Faithful... you'll never win at Wembley!" It is a refrain sung by opposing fans that echoes around rugby league grounds when Hull FC are in action.
So went the refrain sung by the delighted children at the Balapitiya Siddartha Primary School in Galle district in southern Sri Lanka, as they welcomed the guests and parents at their new school, on August 17th, 2007.
It is governed by ultra-Orthodox rabbis, with prayer areas segregated by sex, and women are required to dress modestly and refrain from singing aloud.
Profanity in chants is generally acceptable, but if you're in an area with lots of children then try to refrain from singing any chants with swearing in them (unless it happens regularly and nothing happens) as the stewards may throw you out.
But I deliberately refrained from singing another chorus of "Oklahoma!" I reckoned that Mr. Rodgers and his partner, Mr. Hammerstein, were already turning in their graves.
"That's why we come here every night — to clear the excesses from our heads," Mr. Lancaderas said, adding, however, that the two always adhered to karaoke etiquette and, of course, refrained from singing "My Way".
Vic Flowers, the grey-haired Jimmy Savile lookalike who is often seen leading the Barmy chants, had decided to stay away too, only for Stewart Regan, the Yorkshire chief executive, to hand him a free ticket at the gate – on the understanding that Flowers refrained from singing.
