Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')

Subject: Lepracy
From:
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:15 AM

If anyone knows where I can get hold of the lyrcis for Lepracy, I'd be so thankful!

The words are to the tune Jealousy.

I have looked absolutely everywhere,

Please respond if you know where I can get them from.

Thanks,

Brad.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy
From: rangeroger
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:21 AM

You may mean Leprosy by Tom Lehrer
Leprosy,Oh my God I've got Leprosy.
There goes my eyeball into my highball.
Is that the one? If so I may have the words somewhere.I'll look for them.
rr

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:24 AM

It's a lot older than Tom Lehrer.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: fulurum
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:30 AM

leprosy, all my skin is falling off of me

i'm not half the man i used to be

oh i believe in leprosy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From:
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:36 AM

All those people who just replied, that's the sort of lyrics I'm talking about.

Please send them all to me.

Thanks

Brad.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: rangeroger
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:46 AM

Dick,you're right.I went through my Tom Lehrer stuff and it wasn't to be found.I can't remember who did it.
rr

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: fox4zero
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 01:56 AM

Leprosy My dear you have Leprosy There goes your eye-ball Into my high-ball.

Leprosy My dear you have Leprosy There goes your chin Into my gin.

I can remember hearing only these 2 verses, about 55 years ago.

Larry Parish

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 03:18 AM

EEEEuuoooooooowwwwww!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Wavestar
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:45 PM

The only song I know along those lines is a parody of a very annoying rock song called Let's Talk about Sex, and it was written by a friend of mine, but I don't know if he ever wrote more than one verse or so....

Let's talk about leprosy, Let's talk about that disease, Let's talk about all the lesions and contusions that may be, Let's talk about...

You get the idea. People run away when I sing it at them, but they stop playing annoying Salt N Peppa songs at me :)

-J

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: annamill
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:52 PM

Leprocy, crawling all over me.

There goes my eyeball into my highball.

Kiss me quick, there goes my upper lip.

Can't remember the rest. Sorry.

I know someone who might know all the words. I'll e-mail him and see if he remembers.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: GUEST,dick greenhaus
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 01:23 PM

For the Yiddish-tinged among us, I recall:

There goes my kishkes, into the pishka...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: kendall
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 01:37 PM

Leprosy night and day you torture me
There goes my finger nail
Right into my ginger ale.. this gem dates back to the 50's at least.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: fulurum
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 04:17 PM

my verse is from john valby who performs under the name of dr. dirty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 08:07 PM

LEP---rosee!! My god, I've got LEP--rosee!
There goes my ear, right into my beer!

Chin, gin. eyeball, highball. and more I don't remember.

Learned that some time in junior high school, maybe 1944 or 1945.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: Lyr Add: LEPROSY (parody of YESTERDAY)
From: wildlone
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 03:38 PM

LEPROSY

Leprosy, little bits keep falling off of me,
I'm not half the man I used to be,
Oh, I believe in leprosy.

Suddenly, I thought all my scabs had gone away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh leprosy came suddenly.

Why my hand fell off I don't know, it didn't say.
I just flicked my wrist, gave a twist, it flew away-ay-ay-ay

Leprosy, I've lost one hand and I've got no knee,
And my left leg's not a part of me,
Oh leprosy came suddenly,
(hum).

Here is a song I have found on this subject,
sung to the tune of the Beatles song Yesterday.
dave

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 12:29 AM

There goes my foot, dear, into your root beer!

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 01:58 AM

A lot of the "leprosy" lyrics have been covered on Guest Brad's other thread here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Mar 00 - 02:06 AM

Oops!.... that should be click here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:19 PM

An additional verse to the "Yesterday" version goes: Syphilis - it all started with a single kiss
Now it really hurts to take a piss
Oh, I believe I've syphilis.
All the best.
Seamus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: Barky
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 12:50 AM

If it helps at all.... I was writing a spoof to Yesterday called Lepracy... it went something like this (although I don't remember it too well... it was about three years ago):

Lepracy- I'm only half the man I used to be...
There's my back-bone falling out of me.
Oh look, you gave me Lepracy...

etc.. etc..
It was pretty dern funny, If I could remember the thing!

~Barky

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy
From: GUEST,buff state
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 11:41 AM

i don't know how this chat stuff works or if you asked years ago.
But i am verry framilliar with John Valby (from Buffalo) play's a piano and wears a white tux. we used to hire him in college and he's still playing the east cost.
check out his website it's from the 80's so you may have to e-mail him.
I love the the 50's song i sent it to my sister

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy / Leprosy
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 10:55 AM

leprosy all my skin is falling off of me
I'm not half the man i used to be
oh leprosy is eating me
kiss me quick i'm about to lose my upper lip
i ain't even got a nose to pick
oh leprosy is eating me

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy? / Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday'
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 11:05 AM

Leprosy.
That old rotten man just touched my knee.
Now my flesh is falling off of me.
Oh, I think I got leprosy.

Suddenly
I'm just half the man I used to be.
There are pieces coming off of me.
Yes, leprosy came suddenly.

Why'd my arm fall off?
I don't know, no one will say.
I know something's wrong,
'cause my leg just walked away (without me.)

Yesterday,
I could always lounge the time away.
Now my bed is in a slimy way,
Oh, leprosy's ruined my day.

Why did I get cursed
with this rot? I need to hide.
I'm sure I'm diseased
for my spleen fell out my side. (ooooohhhh.)

Leprosy
has become a big problem for me.
All my friends now run away from me.
Oh how I hate this leprosy.

Ewwwwwwww, this is gross.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy? / Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday'
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 03:46 AM

Leprosy, my god I've got Leprosy,
There goes my chin into my glass of Gin,
Leprosy...(repeat 1st line)
There goes my ear into my glass of beer,
Leprosy..1st line again
There goes my eye into my custard pie,
Leprosy ...1st line again
There goes my nail into my glass of ale.

I am half the man I used to be
Cause pieces just fall off of me.

There goes my thumb into my glass of rum
Leprosy...1st line again

That's all I remember

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lepracy? / Leprosy (parody of 'Yester
From: Genie
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 06:14 PM

Just for the record, most of the parody lyrics posted here are the ones for the parody of "Jalousie."   You can tell those from the Tom Lehrer lyrics and the parody of "Yesterday" by the way the lyrics scan.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: GUEST
Date: 30 May 10 - 09:43 PM

In the 1950s, when coed had to be back to the dorm by midnight, we'd sit around a piano at my fraternity and sing ribald songs (drunkenly, of course). Leprosy was a standard. Here is what I remember:

Leprosy -- my God, I've got leprosy,
it's all over me ...
There goes my eyeball, into my highball.

This was repeated through many, many other verses, including:

Kiss me quick, there goes my upper lip.

This was at the Phi Kap house at West Virginia University.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 May 10 - 11:35 PM

It was, I believe, originally a parody of the tango Jalousie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: GUEST,DrFaustus
Date: 28 Jul 10 - 12:24 PM

Leprosy, I'm not half the man I used to be,
all my skin is falling off of me,
and I believe in leprosy.

Suddenly, now my knees are where my feet should be,
my penis just fell off of me,
and I believe in leprosy.

Why it had to go, I don't know, it wouldn't say.
I ate something wrong, now I'm gone, from leprosy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: GUEST,CJ
Date: 28 Apr 11 - 08:53 PM

I see that noone has posted to this in a long time so i'll put my 2 cents in. I believe the song was on the Dr. Demento show back in the 80's. The version I remember was done in the style of a barbershop quartet. I shall paraphase what i remember from sooooo long ago..

Leprosy,
what a sorry mess I am to see
people stop and stare at me(not correct)
oh i despise my Leprosy(not correct)

Gradually,
I'm not half the man i use to be
Pieces keep on falling off of me
oh i despise my Leprosy..

Why my tounge fell off I don't know I couldn't say
i said fjsdkagjfkghjfkd;ha;s(garbble garbble)
now i long for that sweet day

when i have no Leprosy
having sex with me can never be
i've lost my chance at extacy
oh i dispise my Leprosy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 07:34 PM

lpkeys
that song was by vic scionti
on the good the bad & the pee wee shuffle

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 07:47 PM

Great song. Hansen's Disease is really funny.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: GUEST,Duru
Date: 01 Nov 11 - 05:25 PM

leprosy has got a hold on me
there goes my eyeball into my highball
kiss me quick there goes my upper lip
there goes my fingernail into my ginger ale

my grandmother used to sing it...
can't find it anywhere...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Nov 11 - 07:45 PM

Ah, the songs we used to sing when we were immortal!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Oct 12 - 12:30 PM

Has anybody ever found all the words to "Leprosy, My God I've Got Leprosy" which was sung to the tune of Jealousie? I know it was popular in the 40's and 50's but no one seems to remember all the words. I'd love to know them to rattle some younge cages!!! Love & hugs, Ruthie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of 'Yesterday')
From: MMario
Date: 11 Oct 12 - 12:39 PM

Ruthie - if you look through the thread you will find links to three or four sets of "leprosy" lyrics; most likely including the one you are looking for.