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12 Oct 05 - 05:21 PM (#1581715) Subject: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: John M. Hello everyone, Can you help me identify the tune used for this "Leprosy" song (recording) ?
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12 Oct 05 - 06:18 PM (#1581755) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST I learned it this way probably at summer camp in the late fifties, early sixties Leprosy, is crawling all over me therw goes my eyeball right into my highball Oh darling kiss me quick There goes my upper lip and in the background I hear The splash of my ear in your beer. I'd be happy to sing it over the phone. Fred Maslan |
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12 Oct 05 - 06:32 PM (#1581762) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: kendall ...There goes my fingernail right into my ginger ale.. |
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12 Oct 05 - 06:46 PM (#1581776) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Inukshuk There goes my fingernail Into my cocktail... |
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12 Oct 05 - 06:58 PM (#1581787) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Mick Pearce (MCP) The tango is the well-known Jalousie. I seem to recall there was a thread about it not that long ago. (I'll have a look in a few minutes). Mick |
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12 Oct 05 - 07:03 PM (#1581792) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Mick Pearce (MCP) John - have a look at Lyr Req: Jalousie or Jelosy HER ARM FELL OFF. Bob Coltman was interested in the Leprosy parodies and posted some sets of words in that thread. As I said there you can find midi's of the original tune on the net. Mick |
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12 Oct 05 - 07:16 PM (#1581807) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: JohnInKansas I thought Tom Lehrer had one by that title, but it's not in my Lehrer collection. Probably I just mism-membered it. John |
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12 Oct 05 - 07:42 PM (#1581832) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you h From: GUEST,.gargoyle There is also the version of Leprosy to the Beatle's Yesterday.
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12 Oct 05 - 11:16 PM (#1581946) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,Ingrid Frances Stark I also remember Tom Lehrer having one that sounded like that. |
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12 Oct 05 - 11:23 PM (#1581951) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you h From: GUEST,.gargoyle I will also cast another vote with Lehr - it is his style.
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12 Oct 05 - 11:44 PM (#1581963) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: John M. Guest - Fred Maslan, thanks for offering to sing for me. You can reach me at john@mehlberg.com. You can reach me be phone most afternoons at 314.647.3883 or evenings at 314.381.0492. MCP, thanks. I will get the song. Everyone, is there anyone here willing to sing your version? If yes, please email or call me. It is appreciated. Sincerely, John Mehlberg |
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13 Oct 05 - 12:24 AM (#1581981) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: mousethief My mum used to sing bits of this. As much as I remember: Leprosy You're getting the best of me There goes my finger It will not linger ... There goes my eyeball into my high-ball O..O =o= |
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13 Oct 05 - 01:16 PM (#1582407) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,aLLAN s. I heard it as far back as the early1940's |
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13 Oct 05 - 01:19 PM (#1582408) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: johnross Peggy Seeger knew the song as a child in the 1940s. Or so she once said in a concert. |
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13 Oct 05 - 05:35 PM (#1582627) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you h From: Kevin Sheils Each time I fidgit I lose a digit Pretty sure it's not Lehrer, similar in style but not subtle enough IMO |
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13 Oct 05 - 11:13 PM (#1582791) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you h From: Mark Cohen The Tom Lehrer song folks are thinking of is probably The Masochism Tango. Aloha, Mark |
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14 Oct 05 - 05:11 AM (#1582880) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you h From: Kevin Sheils The Tom Lehrer song folks are thinking of is probably The Masochism Tango. Or possibly "I hold your hand in Mine" |
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28 Apr 09 - 09:43 AM (#2620441) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,Lans I also know the one based on the Beetles "Yesterday" Leprosey I'm just half the man I used to be little pieces falling off of me Oh I believe it's leprosey And I believe it's killing me Kiss me quick I'm about to lose my upper lip I don't even have a nose to pick Oh I believe it's Leprosey And I believe it's killing me. There is more to it but that is all I can remember. |
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29 Oct 09 - 08:46 AM (#2754739) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST Did you ever think as a hearse rolled by, that you would be the next to die?? The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, the worms crawl in and around and about! Kiss me quick, there goes my lip... just a snippet from my past. |
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29 Oct 09 - 08:49 AM (#2754741) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Mr Happy '......there goes her ear, dear into your beer, dear.....' |
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22 Apr 11 - 02:32 AM (#3140130) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,will spires It has nothing to do with Tom Lehrer. You'er confusing it with "The Masochism Tango." |
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04 Sep 11 - 12:39 PM (#3218066) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST The song became popular after Frankie Lane had a hit with "Jealousy". Look for it on you tube. I use to sing this version back in the 50's Leprosy Your crawling all over me Just look at my left leg, It looks like a rotten egg. |
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04 Sep 11 - 04:53 PM (#3218195) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: fox4zero Leprosy, my dear you've got leprosy There goes your eye ball into my highball Leprosy, my dear you've got leprosy There goes your chin into my gin. . To the tune of Jealousy. Probably a camp song I sang 70 years ago. Larry |
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23 Feb 12 - 09:17 PM (#3312452) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST Leprosy, see what you've done to me. There goes my eyeball, into my highball. Kiss me quick, there goes my upper lip. There goes my fingernail, into my ginger ale. (I recall this as a parody song making the rounds in the 1950s to the tune of Jealousy. |
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24 Feb 12 - 07:43 AM (#3312621) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Nigel Parsons Three lepers were playing cards; One threw his hand in, so Another split his sides laughing & The third laughed his head off. Sick jokes are all part of growing up. Stopping using them is a sign of maturity (or maybe senility!) Cheers Nigel |
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25 Feb 12 - 12:15 AM (#3313080) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST What did the leper say to the whore after a blou-job? "Keep the tip ". . |
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03 Jun 12 - 03:21 PM (#3358846) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,Marjorie My great aunt taught me the song in the 50's when I was very young. I remember the lyrics as follows: Leprosy. Good God, I've got leprosy! There goes my eye ball Into my high ball. My upper lip Just fell in the onion dip. (I forget the rest). (I would give anything to know the rest of the lyric if there are any. However, I notice that most people's recollection ends at about this point as well.) |
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19 Feb 14 - 12:28 PM (#3602851) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST The tango was "Jealousy Tango" and I heard it in boarding school in the 1950s. I don't remember all the words nor the order, but bits here and there (mainly the first lines of each verse: Leprosy, by God I've got leprosy There goes my eyeball Right into my highball..... Leprosy, by God I've got leprosy There goes my fingernail Right into my ginger ale..... Leprosy, by God I've got leprosy There goes my left ear Right into my glass of beer..... Leprosy, by God I've got leprosy There goes my double chin Into my glass of gin...... |
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17 Jun 14 - 12:11 AM (#3633768) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,guest there goes your left ear it is floating in my soup, dear |
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17 Jun 14 - 07:08 PM (#3634082) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Don Firth A fellow named Dallas Williams, who sang frequently in Seattle's Pamir House coffeehouse during the early Sixties, cobbled together a pretty funny (dark humor) song in the style and tradition of "Teen Angel." Of course, "Teen Leper." He started out singing, then with the aid of a couple of stooges he recruited who did the "Ooh aahs" in harmony, he spoke the obligatory talking part, which contained such gems as "My parents didn't want me to go with her. 'But son,' they said, 'she has leprosy." "I said, 'Well, gee whiz, mom and dad, lots of teenagers have complexion problems…..'" And the capper, "I'll never forget that magic night when" -- (suppressed sob) -- "she gave me her right thumb….." Don Firth |
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24 Jul 15 - 10:10 AM (#3725804) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST Catch it quick..there goes my pper lip. There goes my eyeball, into my hiball, there goes my fingernail, into my gingerale. I sang this with great gusto with my cousins and friend in the 1950's. I was 8 . Now armadillos are spreading leprosy in Florida, which brought me to this site ( not to mention my childhood fascination with the movievthe ten commandments when Moses found his leper relatives wandering in the darkness). Whats with the fascination? It s almost embarrassing! Ive got all my parts...lol |
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10 Nov 15 - 06:36 PM (#3749930) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,Miss Pam It's the tango Jealousy as made popular by Frankie Laine. I just wrote about it on Facebook yesterday. Must be in the air. |
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28 Nov 15 - 11:56 AM (#3754220) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,rlhorm Leprosy, I think I've got leprosy, There goes my eyeball into my highball. Leprosy, I think I've got leprosy, There goes my left leg into the beer keg. That is all I remember. |
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08 Feb 16 - 12:16 AM (#3771322) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,michele Leprosy, it's crawling all over me There goes my eyeball into my highball Yesterday, I threw my big toe away There goes my ear, into my beer. Kiss me quick, there goes my upper lip There goes my fingernail Into my ginger ale........ The reason no one can remember pat this part is we were all laughing so much we stopped singing. Early 50's. In Hawaii, no less. |
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12 Jul 18 - 11:58 PM (#3937006) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,Ambam My mom used to sing this to me when I was kid I’m 30 now Just asked her Her dad sung it to her lolol |
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02 Aug 18 - 02:07 PM (#3941117) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,David my science teacher sang this during an amateur show in high school around 1986, in a Christian school no doubt. I forget everything but the kiss me quick, before I loose my upper lip |
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02 Aug 18 - 02:28 PM (#3941120) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Jim Carroll I remember the joke about the two lepers playing cards One threw his hand in Jim Carroll |
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02 Aug 18 - 02:28 PM (#3941121) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: Jim Carroll I remember the joke about the two lepers playing cards One threw his hand in Jim Carroll |
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24 Jan 20 - 01:59 PM (#4029953) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,rbarthjr The lines I remember most clearly from what my aunt would sing in the '60s: There goes my right leg They call me Lefty There goes my left leg They call me Shorty |
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19 Jul 22 - 11:42 AM (#4147830) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST,Barbara Z. Banks Oh, lordy, a friend just Facebook posted a photo of an armadillo in her yard in Texas, and I had to come here to find more lyrics. I was in my early 40s when this thread began! My mother used to sing snippets of this song back in the '60s. |
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22 Oct 22 - 09:34 AM (#4155947) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Leprosy' song to a Tango..can you help? From: GUEST I remember my father singing this to me in the 60's and I cannot remember more either but I do have this Leprosy, it's crawling all over me There goes my eye lash into my succotash But that could have been one my dad made up. He was like that... |