Not blues, but here’s another comical song about an operation:


OH! MY OPERATION
Words by Billy Rose and Ballard McDonald, music by Jesse Greer, ©1927.

I. As recorded by Jack Lynch on Parlophone A2423 (which can be heard at the Internet Archive)

[Verse 1] Ev'ry person
Knew Jane McPherson
To be a regular scout.
What a sport
When a guy produced a quart!
But she’s not so hot
Ever since she got
Her appendix cut out.
Yesterday
I overheard her sweetie say:

[Chorus 1] When I bounce her on my knee,
All she does is yell at me:
“Oh, my operation!”
When I start to raise the deuce,
She gives me the same excuse:
“Oh, my operation!”
And when I want to love like anyone does,
She always tells me how nice the doctor was.
When we’re spooning on the couch,
All she does is holler: “Ouch!
Oh, my operation!”

[Verse 2] Bold and careful,
A Morris chair-full
Of cushions, pillows and such,
She’ll resist
Ev’ry effort to be kissed.
Since the surgeon,
A world of urgin’
Don’t seem to get the boys much.
Right out loud,
I heard her boyfriend tell the crowd:

[Chorus 2] What did Charlie Chaplin say
When he thinks of Letta(?) Gray?
Oh, my operation!
When my boss went off his nut,
And I had my salary cut,
Oh, my operation!
How Mrs Goldberg loves to get off her chest
How her incision is diff’rent from the rest.
When my income tax was due,
I did just the same as you.
Oh, my operation!

[Chorus 3] When I heard the doctor state:
“I will have to operate.”
Oh, my operation!
When I saw that pretty nurse,
Right away I got much worse.
Oh, my operation!
And when she let me hold that white hand of hers,
I used to bite through those hard thermometers.
Curing two mosquito bites
Took her ninety-seven nights.
Oh, my operation!

Oh, my operation!

II. As recorded by Jay C. Flippen and His Gang on Perfect 12392 B (Internet Archive)

[Verse 1 is the same as above.]

[Chorus 1 has this substitution for lines 7-8:]
And when I rave about the moon and the stars,
She interrupts me and tells me of her scars.

[Verse 2 is omitted.]

[Chorus 2] Now, when I heard the doctor state:
“I will have to operate.”
Oh, my operation!
And when my boss went off his nut,
And I had my salary cut,
Oh, my operation!
How Mrs Ginsburg loves to get off her chest
Just how her incision is diff’rent from the rest.
And when my income tax was due,
I did just the same as you.
Oh, my operation!

[Chorus 3] Now, yesterday I got a tip
Guaranteed to be a pip.
Oh, my operation!
Why, I went to the track and bet
On a horse that’s runnin’ yet.
Oh, my operation!
And then I doubled up on one that looked right.
Well, this horse started Tuesday and finished Friday night.
And just to end a perfect day,
Someone stole my watch away.
Oh, my operation!