Hello everyone,

Can you help me identify the tune used for this "Leprosy" song (recording)  ?


                1.  Do you sing this song? 
                2.  If yes, when and where did you learn it?
                3.  Would you be willing to sing it for folklore purposes over the phone?

Any help is appreciated.

Sincerely,

John Mehlberg
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LEPROSY    (recording)
[Tune - Unknown "tango"]

Leprosy
My darling I have leprosy
There goes my eyeball into my high ball
Kiss me quick
My God there goes my upper lip

Notes:  This was sung by an anonymous woman on 25 Sep 2005.  She learned this while at college in Fulton, Missouri in the early 1960s.  I believe that I have read about this song in Brunvald's Introduction to Folklore.   I will try to dig out the page reference later today.