Once upon a time I remembered this phrase of crazy music that was seared into my brain at an impressionable age, presumably by a cartoon. Thanks to renting random cartoon collections on Netflix, I now know that it was "The Dirdy Birdy", available on Avoid Eye Contact: NYC Independent Animation volume 1 (it's spelled "The Dirty Birdy" on the DVD menus). It's by John R. Dilworth of Stretch Films, notably creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog, which was a great short (I guess that's the Academy Award nominated "The Chicken from Outer Space") and a pretty good show even after the characters learned to talk. The Dirdy Birdy appeared on Cartoon Network a few times around the same time they were doing the original round of Cartoon Cartoons that launched their modern stars like Courage, Dexter, and Johnny Bravo. Apparently it also inspired a comic strip by Dilworth in the monthly Animation World Magazine. (It's sort of available online: you can see the first here, then change the issue numbers in the URL to view the following ones.)
So now I know who to blame for that "ah-ah ah ah ah ah ah-ah, oh-oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh, ee-ee ee ee ee ee ee-ee" tune with which I am cursed in my darkest moments of insanity. (You can hear it cut up on the Stretch Films Flash site's loading screen.)
