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Thread #94951 Message #1843536
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
26-Sep-06 - 06:48 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat's Tenth Birthday (October 1, 2006)
Subject: RE: Mudcat's Birthday
I joined in Feb 2004, after three years lurking and using the DT. My first PM was from the late, and sorely missed, Dave Bryant, asking me to post on the "Mudcat Recovery Ward" thread, a song that Clive Lever and myself ("Sic Transit") sing. Somehow I didn't get round to doing so, but, on Mudcat reaching ten years of age, the song seems somehow to fit rather well with its history of survival through all kinds of trials and tribulations, so here it is.
"HYPOCHONDRIA" Words and music by Clive Lever.
I'm the coward of the county of dementia,
And the trouble started back when I was nine,
Got yellow jaundice, scarlet fever, and green sickness,
Which confused the hell out of me, I'm colour blind.
CH. I've got measles, mumps, and meningitis,
Hepati, hepati, hepatitis,
Impotence, impetigo, I've got the lot,
I'm a personal friend of Bruce E Losis,
Yellow Jack Jaundice, and Hal I Tosis,
But hypochond-ri-ay I sure ain't got.
In a rose garden in a good year for neuroses,
I got sleepin' sickness from a blanket on the ground,
I got more than Asian flu, when I slept with a boy named Sue,
On the day Rubella took her love to town.
CH.
I've got Alopecia, jaunty alopecia,
Nearly had my doctor tearing out his hair,
And he told me I've got phobaphobaphobia,
Which means I'm scared of gittin' scared of gittin' scared.
CH.
(starting very slow then accelerating)
I've got Delhi belly, beri-beri, dysentery, pulmonary embolism, and I've got a whole darn list of 'em,
Long enough to reach to the home of the Hong Kong flu,
I don't pretend I'm sick, I wouldn't pull that kind of trick,
But I know darn well I'm ill and so do you.
'cos I've got measles, mumps, and meningitis,
Hepati, hepati, hepatitis,
Impotence, impetigo, I've got the lot,
I'm a personal friend of Bruce E Losis,
Yellow Jack Jaundice, and Hal I Tosis,
But hypochond-ri-ay I sure ain't got.
No, no, no, hypochond-ri-ay I sure ain't got,
I tell ya hypochond-ri-ayee yodelayee yodelayee yodelay-ee dee (cough, cough) I sure ain't got.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUDCAT, and many more to follow
Don(Wyziwyg)T and Wildrover