A couple of irreverent comments:
an earlier poster referenced Cat Stevens.
I believe the song is called
"I'm gonna be a Pop Star"
and what he says is
The Cold Bank, not "the cold house."


Then we have the tomfoolery of Tom Smothers,
who does a long intro with straight man Dick Smothers about
songs about diseases,
eventually leading into the "Measles Song"
which amounts merely to:

There was a day
When the Measles struck
OUCH