Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 18 - 07:27 PM

Penicillin will cure Hanson's disease.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Oct 18 - 04:55 AM

Song begins with "Oh my god I've got leprosy;" all the following preceded by "there goes my. . .."

Ear into my beer;
Eye ball into my high ball;
Finger nail into my ginger ale;
Scrotal sac into my cognac;
Spine into my wine;
Knee into my martini.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST,Ian C.
Date: 13 Oct 16 - 08:42 AM

There goes my fingernail into my glass of ginger ale

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 15 - 11:05 PM

There goes my toenail into your lunch pail

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 15 - 06:10 PM

Leprosy, it's getting the best of me
There goes my eyeball floating in my highball
kiss me quick I'm losing my upper lip.

I'm so upset that nobody remembers this lyric and can't find it. I'll continue the search.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jul 13 - 06:00 PM

Leprosy, my gosh I've got Leprosy,
There goes my ear, right into my beer, da da da da da da, da

Leprosy, my gosh I've got Leprosy,
there goes my finger Nail, right into my ginger ale, da da da da da,da,da

Leprosy. ,my gosh I've got leprosy,
There goes my chin, right into my gin, da,da,da da, da, da, da

Repeat first line with each of these......

....there goes my spine, right into my wine. . .
....there goes my thigh, right into my rye.....
....there goes my eye ball right into my highball....
....there goes my knee, right into my martini.....

make up whatever you think you can to add to it. .....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST,Ned
Date: 07 Oct 11 - 07:11 PM

The original tango was composed by a Dane, Jacob Gade in about 1925 to accompany a silent movie. It became an international hit. The spelling is "jalousie."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST,Guest,Crow
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 12:47 AM

My Dad used to sing this to us in the 50's. along with the Billboard song and Pull your shades down MaryAnn.which I can find the words too. So it is interesting that none of us can get the complete version to Leprosy. I remember " There goes my left leg right into the beer keg"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jul 10 - 03:17 PM

The tune (I only heard Jealousy after Leprosy) was going thru my head this AM, so decided to google it. No one seems to have gotten
"There goes my left leg into my scrambled egg"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST,Genie E. Polower
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 07:06 PM

Leprosy is getting the best of me
There goes my eyeball
Into your highball
There goes my fingernail
Into your gingerale
There goes my ear
Into your beer.

Kiss me quick
There goes my upper lip
There goes my eye
Into your thigh.

I am so sick with leprosy
I do not know what's wrong with me
I know that I never have felt this way
I lose a new body part every day.


I am so sick with leprosy
My tummy fell down to my knee
I'm not the gal I used to be
I know in my heart
That I'm falling apart
Because I've got leprosy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: ced2
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 11:13 AM

I recall a teaching colleague singing it 40 years ago, can't remember much of it, it was rude, started like this:-
"Leprosy, all you gave me was, Leprosy,
And V.D, and........."

on the otherhand in the middle of a large dysentery outbreak 25 years ago it could well have been altered to:-

"Dysentry, all you gave me was dysentry"
And gastro enteritis and hepititis".....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST,Loosing my head
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 08:36 PM

Lighten up "Dr. Jon Wilder"...it's a song from a long time ago when things were not so "PC".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: Rowan
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 10:48 PM

Jim's post is the clearest approximation to the version I've heard in Oz, although at least one of the openings
Leprosy
Is creeping all over me.
is replaced with
"Leprosy
My God, I've got leprosy.

And, until at least the '30s, it wasn't the only trypanosome causing problems. The popularity of the parody may be attributable, in part, to some black humour concerning one's status regarding the other widely distributed trypanosome.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: GUEST,Dr Jon Wilder
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:44 PM

This thread isn't funny!

Leprosy is a very dangerous condition where body parts separate from the host body.

This silliness shall stop immediately or I will kill you with my mighty bare hands.

You hideous bastards!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leprosy (parody of Jealousy/Jalousie)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 09:12 AM

Leprosy
Is creeping all over me.
There goes my eyeball,
Into my highball.

Leprosy
Is creeping all over me.
There goes my ear, dear,
Into my beer, dear.

Leprosy
Is creeping all over me.
There goes my chin, dear,
Into my gin, dear.


It looks like it would be easy enough to invent more verses. Just rhyme a body part with a drink:

There goes my tooth ... into my vermouth.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: GUEST,Dinny
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 07:13 PM

One of the lines was:

There goes my finger nail, into my ginger ale

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: GUEST,Rogers
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 02:43 PM

I really need the full version of "Leprosy, its crawling all over me...

Help me Iam going nuts. [e-mail]

Subject: Lyr Add: LEPROSY (parody of JEALOUSY/JALOUSIE)
From: GUEST,Rachel G.
Date: 07 Apr 08 - 04:13 PM

This is what we sang when we were kids in the 1950's to the popular tango tune of Jealousy:

LEP-rosy (boom-boom) is crawl-ing all OO-ver me (boom boom)
There goes my eye-ball
into my high ball!
(Brroom Brroom Ta Da Da Da Da Da Da)
LEP-rosy (boom boom)is craw-ling all OO-ver me (boom boom)
There goes my fing-ernail
into my ging-erale!
(Brroom Brroom Ta Da Da Da Da Da Da)
LEP-rosy (boom boom)is craw-ling all OO-ver me (boom boom)
There goes my ear (boom-boom, boom-boom)
in-to my beer!
(Ta Dum Ta Dum)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 05:05 PM

Jalousie is indeed a very famous tango and would fit the words posted by Genie above. If anyone's still interested in it I'll post the tune, though I'm sure there must be lots of midi versions on the net.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 12:05 PM

"Leprosy" brain dump: Have fun, all.   ---Bob

First, to correct the above title typo: it's "Jalousie" (Gade's original instrumental title) or "Jealousy" (in the English version). In Spanish this tango is known as "Celos."

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I have not found a source for the whole parody. Parody words encountered on various sites:

Leprosy, you're getting the best of me
There goes my eyeball ... into my highball!

There goes my finger ... it will not linger!
OR
There goes my left ear into my fresh beer
OR
There goes my ear / into my root beer..."

"There goes my eye / into my pie..."

Leprosy,
It's crawling all over me,
A bit of pink percale
Is floating in my ginger ale,,,

I'll add a line that occurred to me: Leprosy, I need your sympathy...
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Here's the version sung by Frankie Laine (but it was sung by Kathryn Grayson in the film "Anchors Aweigh" way back in 1945, and maybe before that):

Jealousy (Jalousie)
-Artist: Frankie Laine as sung on "Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits"
-Columbia CS 8636
-peak Billboard position # 3 in 1951
Sung in Anchors Aweigh by Kathryn Grayson, 1945
-Words by Vera Bloom and Jacob Gade

Jealousy, night and day you torture me
I sometimes wonder
If this spell that I'm under
Can only be a melody
For I know no one but me has won your heart, but
When the music starts, my peace departs

From the moment they play that lovely strain
And we surrender to all its charm again
This jealousy that tortures me is ecstasy, mystery, pain

We dance to a tango of love
Your heart beats with mine as we sway
Your eyes give the answer I'm dreaming of
That soft word your cruel lips will never say

I fear that the music will end
And shatter the spell it may lend
To make me believe when your eyes just deceive
But it's only the tango you love

I fear that the music will end
And shatter the spell it may lend
To make me believe when your eyes just deceive
And it's only the tango you love

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Now for some leprosy songs I encountered while searching. Might be of interest. First the common "Yesterday" parody sung by scouts and so forth. Noe "my arm fell off" -- is this the one sought by Brad3555 at the top of this thread?

"Yesterday" Based on the performance by The Beatles
"Leprosy" Parody by Phantom Hitchhiker

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.

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Next, from a camp & scout song website. This song may have some folk-type parody lyric at its core, but has clearly been doctored up a bit. Seemed a likely source for HER ARM FELL OFF but doesn't use the phrase.
TEEN LEPER

http://worldofkevin.com/troop48/SONGS.HTM

Done in the form of a bad 50's teenage love song. Before each verse the background is sung by itself loudly once and then continues softly under the lead part. The background vocals are sung throughout the verse and spoken parts, but not during the choruses. A group does the backgrounds while a soloist does the verses and spoken parts. Everyone on stage does the choruses. Generally the audience just listens to the song rather than singing along.

BACKGROUND VOCAL

Leprosy, leprosy, leprosy, leprosy
Leprosy, leprosy, rot, rot (repeat as often as necesary)
LEAD PART
    VERSE 1

My Mary... had leprosy
She gave... her high high school ring to me
My ring... around her neck she wore
Because she didn't have... any fingers anymore
    SPOKEN PART 1

I'll never forget the first time I saw Mary.
She was coming out of history class when she dropped her left thumb.
As I leaned over to pick it up for her, she smiled that toothless smile
In a way that could only mean "I love you."
CHORUS 1

Mary, Mary I love you true
Every rotten part of you
My Mary
SPOKEN PART 2

I told my folks I was in love.
All they said was "But you're too young to be in love".
I told them that teenagers could feel love too, and they said
"But Mary's different. Mary has leprosy!"
I tried to tell them all teenagers have skin problems,
But they just wouldn't listen.
CHORUS 2

Mary, Mary we'll heal those scabs
Have you tried new Acne-tabs
My Mary
SPOKEN PART 3

They finally took my Mary away to a colony across the sea.
She'll always be very dear to me, and I'll always love her.
CHORUS 3

Mary, Mary come back to me
Come back from that colony
My Mary.
SPOKEN PART 4

I just got word in the mail today,
My Mary had finally rotted away.
Beside her pile of clothes they found two things:
A note that said "I love you."    (pause, including the background, and then sing the last line)
And my high school ring
CHORUS 4

Mary you'll always be my queen
even if I live to be nineteen
My Mary
(do the background vocals two more times, three rots the last time)


The Search Continues.....GAAAAH!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 11:21 AM

Reviving this thread after three years lying fallow:

I found the following:

"Jalousie" (or as "Jalousy")

By Jacob Gade (1869-1963), born in Denmark.

He wrote his "tzigane tango" (gypsy tango) in 1925, after reading an account of a man who murdered his wife because of jealousy. It put Denmark on the popular music map. "Jalousie" was born as an instrumental, but in every country it reached, a lyric was written in the native language, including English.

Gade spent time in the US as a composer on at least two occasions but always returned to his home country. By the 1970s it was estimated the song was played at least once every minute on some radio on the planet.

source: http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/CRONICAS/jgade_creador_celos.asp

I'm also actively looking for the "Leprosy" parody words. My recollection is that there was a whole song's worth of them, but I don't remember any more than has already been quoted in this thread.

Bob

Subject: Lyr Add: SIDE BY SIDE (Parody)
From: GUEST,There's another "her arm fell off" parody
Date: 05 Jun 02 - 02:18 AM

It's to the tune of "Side by Side" and a little crude.

I saw her there in the June night
She undressed in the moonlight
Her teeth and her hair, she placed in a chair
Side by side.

And then she took out her glass eye
I looked at her and said "Oh, my"
Her teeth and her hair, she placed in a chair
Side by side

Then all kinds of motions
She started to go through
First her arm fell off, then her leg came off
She came clean in two

I looked at her and said, "Let's go to bed."
She said "Pal, you've got rocks in your head."
So I slept on the chair 'cause there was more of her there
Side by side.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 7-Jun-02.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Jun 02 - 05:29 PM

My mother sang this to me at my cradle (my mum has a weird sense of propriety, God bless 'er), but her version started,

Leprosy, you're getting the best of me
There goes my eyeball ... into my highball!

Also I remember:

There goes my finger ... it will not linger!

Alex

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Genie
Date: 04 Jun 02 - 05:25 PM

Oui, j'ai appris que le mot "jalousie" en Français veut dire "Jealousy" en Englais.

[Yeah, that's the French word for "jealousy."]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Genie
Date: 04 Jun 02 - 05:22 PM

I think the Tom Lehrer song you folks are thinking of is "I Hold Your Little Hand In Mine," isn't it. The old standard "Jalousie" ("Jealousy") goes back at least to the 1940s and probably the '30s, and the parody, like Uncle Dave says, probably came out shortly thereafter. [Could it have been a Spike Jones or Homer and Jethro version?]

So far, we've got:
"Leprosy, it's crawling all over me-
There goes my eyeball
Into my highball.
Oh My darling won't you
kiss me quick,
There goes my upper lip,
There goes my ear,
right into my beer!"

BTW, I always saw the song title printed as "Jalousie" on old records and sheet music. I thought that was the French spelling, though I've never looked it up. [Creole or Cajon, maybe?]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 12:00 PM

No, the eyeball-highball version is not Tom Lehrer. I learned that back in in the mid-40s, before he was around.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Jack The Lad
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 08:00 AM

Oh My darling won't you kiss me quick, There goes my upper lip, There goes my eyeball, into my highball, Leprosy,it's crawling all over me.

That's all I can remember! Jack The Lad

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Sourdough
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 01:54 AM

Annap:

Your explanation sounds better than any other that's been offered.

Have begun getting ready for my next bike trip - CA to Colorado Springs (#2 son graduates from high school) to Williamstown, MA (#1 son graduates from college).

Sourdough

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 01:44 AM

only the tune to it seems to be "Yesterday"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 01:36 AM

You're right Eluned it's here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Eluned
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 01:27 AM

Isn't the version that goes, "there goes my eye-ball, into my high-ball" a Tom Lehrer song? It seems to me that I read that somewhere recently on this forum, in fact!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: GUEST,Brad
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 12:24 AM

To GUEST,Bill in Alabama

Yes, they'd be the ones!

Subject: Lyr Add: LEPROSY (Jim Fawcett "Jealousy" parody)
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Mar 00 - 12:20 AM

Perhaps this is what Guest Brad was looking for but I think I would like the Frankie Laine Parody better or maybe this is the Frankie Laine parody, who knows..

Leprosy written by Jim Fawcett-- A parody of "Jealousy" by Queen

Oh, how lame can I be?
Oh, my arm fell off to the bottom of the lake
How was I to know that old bum would
Give me leprosy?

Oh...Leprosy--look at me now
Leprosy--you got me somehow
My ear was on this morning
I cried out my eyes--Leprosy!
My foot is gone
Still in it's shoe back on the trail
You left my pinky in a pail
Why? Why? Why? Oh my Leprosy
I wasn't smart enough to just stay home inside
Now I'm only left with my own leprosy

Oh, how strong can I be
When all my precious parts
Will be gone before the ending of this year
If only you could see me rot, Oh leprosy
Leprosy I've been ripped off
Leprosy I've been torn down
Maybe tomorrow, I will go insane! Leprosy, when
Will you let go?

Gotta hold of my shapely behind
Now I've lost my freakin' mind
Why? Why? Why? Oh, my leprosy
My cells are trying not to dry up from inside
But I'm only left with my old leprosy
And now it matters not, if I should live or die
'Cause I'm only left with my own leprosy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 07:58 PM

LEP-rosee, my God, I've got LEP-rosee!
There goes my eyeball
Right into my highball!

also, "There goes my ear, right into my beer!"

I'm sure there are others.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: kendall
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 01:41 PM

Never count your chickens in the middle of a job well done.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: annamill
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 01:13 PM

Sourdough, good to hear from you. Hows the bikin'? Well ,anyway, I think you're soppose to extend the phrase. Kinda like "because of no horse a kingdom was lost". If you feel sad because you have no feet, look at the man who has no legs. My thoughts on it anyway.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Sourdough
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:58 PM

I only remember the first words of the parody:

"Leprosy, it's crawling all over me-
There goes my eyeball - into my highball.... "

That's it. That's all I can withdraw from the Memory Bank.

Quite a ways back, I was shooting a documentary that took me to Carville, Louisiana, to a leprosarium, now closed. While I was there, I could not get that damned song fragment out of my mind.

There was a sign in the gymnnasium there that I have never understood. Maybe with all the collected intelligence Mudcat represents, someone can offer a theory as to the meaning of this sign posted with pride of place on the gymn wall.

Clearly, it was meant to be inspirational. The words were familiar, it was the context that conused me: "I used to feel badly that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet". The confusing, to me anyway, part is that one of the effects of leprosy is the common need for the amputatation of extremities and a number of the residents at Carville really did have no feet. Was this sign somehow supposed to make them feel better?

'Tis a puzzlement.

Sourdough

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: GUEST,Bill in Alabama
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 06:53 AM

Brad--

Many years ago there was a parody of the popular Jealousy, which described body parts falling off--Is this what you're after?

Bill

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 05:01 AM

Barbara, Frankie Laine did a song entitled "Jealousy" with the "Jalousie" spelling in brackets on the record label and the "Jalousie" spelling on the album cover in two places. My dictionary seems to indicate that the word was misued that way by "southern writers", whatever that means.

Guest Brad, if this is the song that you are looking for, it is on the album, Frankie Laines Greatest Hits.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF
From: Barbara
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 02:25 AM

Brad, I sure don't recognize those; can you tell us anything more about the song titles? And are you aware that the word is most often spelled "jealosy"? Did you search under that spelling?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF!!!
From:
Date: 23 Mar 00 - 12:47 AM

please send me lryics to any these tune

i'm not sure on spelling.

Any lryics apprecieated.