Subject: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Marylytel#seanet.com Date: 26 Apr 98 - 12:11 AM Hi ALL: A friend of mine is putting together a group of folk songs that could be sung by medical students while going through medical school. I thought this might be a great place to get some suggestions. I have already checked the database but it is hard to know what to search for because so many different songs could fall into this type of category. Any song titles, lyrics or URL's would be appreciated. My friend has just retired from being a doctor after many years and is now trying to put something together to teach to medical students. He said it was many a times that folk music got him through many years ago when he was studying to become a doctor and he wants to share this with students today. Thanks, Mary
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Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Art Thieme Date: 26 Apr 98 - 12:25 AM "Free And Equal Blues" --Josh White Any of the songs by that urologist who sings the blues---Urethra Franklin! ;-) |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 26 Apr 98 - 06:46 AM Don't forget "Dr Freud". It is in the database. I was taught it while I was a mathematician for a biochemical research institute by somebody who was taught it..... It circulated through the medical and related schools and was recorded by (I think) the Kingston Trio. Murray |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: John Nolan Date: 26 Apr 98 - 08:51 AM And then comes the doctor, the worst of them all, Saying, "What's been the matter with you all the fall?" He'll tell you he'll cure you of all your disease, When the money he's got, you can die if you please, And it's hard, hard times. (Verse from Newfie song, Hard Times) |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Ralph Butts Date: 26 Apr 98 - 09:05 AM The Doctor's Lament (you'll find it in the database) is a good place to start. I have a wonderful version by Oscar Brand which he calls simply "The Portions of a Woman."....Tiger |
Subject: Lyr Add: SHORTNIN' BREAD From: Sheye Date: 26 Apr 98 - 10:35 AM SHORTNIN' BREAD
Mama's little babies love shortnin', shortnin'
Three little babies, lyin' in bed
Mam's little babies... |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Barbara Date: 26 Apr 98 - 11:51 AM Try searching Mark Cohen (click). He's an ex medical student (that is to say Doctor) and has a bunch of stuff in the data base (click). If he's on the mailing list, I haven't checked yet, he also has a song that is simply (!) the names of prescription medicines set to the tune of Modern Major General from Pirates of Penzance. Barbara |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Alice Date: 26 Apr 98 - 12:14 PM "St. James Infirmary" "Locke Hospital" "The Sailor Cut Down In His Prime" "Streets of Laredo" "Bard of Armagh", "The Dying Cowboy" "Coo Coo U" Alice, in Montana |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bruce O. Date: 26 Apr 98 - 12:48 PM "The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out", Carl Sandburg |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Susan of DT Date: 26 Apr 98 - 02:00 PM Use the search box above. a search for @medicine got 17 hits and a search for doctor got over a hundred. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: dwditty Date: 26 Apr 98 - 03:02 PM Don't forget "(Put de Lime in de) Coconut" - Nilsson Doctor Robert - The Beatles Rock and Roll Doctor - Little Feat The Dentist's Wife - Fred Koller |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Barry Finn Date: 26 Apr 98 - 06:18 PM The Black Cook, Barry |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 27 Apr 98 - 08:25 AM Well if you want to get desperate there is the Carter Family's "Chewing Gum"
I wouldn't marry a doctor Murray |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bert Date: 27 Apr 98 - 09:03 AM Found a Peanut |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: rosebrook Date: 27 Apr 98 - 10:56 AM Miss Lucy had a baby, she named him Tiny Tim. She put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water, he ate up all the soap.
Miss Lucy called the doctor, Miss Lucy called the nurse.
"Mumps!", said the doctor, "measles!" said the nurse. Maybe not the best to operate by, but awfully good for jumping rope! ; ) Rosebrook |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bill D Date: 27 Apr 98 - 01:04 PM from "When Dalliance was in Flower and Maidens Lost Their Head" [The Tunbridge Doctors, or, Four Able Physicians]
"From fair London town, there have lately come down, more to follow, gotta go double-check to be sure I remember all the verses...
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Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 27 Apr 98 - 07:03 PM Didn't Oscar Brand have a few bawdy medical student songs on some of his bawdy LP's? |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 27 Apr 98 - 08:38 PM I wish I could remember more verses to this song:
Doctor and Doctor Jones (Cho) Murray |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: northfolk Date: 28 Apr 98 - 01:13 PM Joel Mabus, one of the finest musicians and songwriters in Michigan, is currently doing a song [The Druggist] in his act. I am not sure that it is recorded. He rhymes acetaminophen with..? the song is a challenge to keep up with...audiences love it. it certainly fits this category...wish I could give more details. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bruce O. Date: 28 Apr 98 - 01:46 PM Surgery was originally done by barber surgeons and there are some barber ones noted in my broadside index. Do gelders count, too? 'The Tunbridge Doctors' (Four Able Physicians) is in 'The New Academy of Compliments', 1669 (unique copy in Folger Shakespeare Library), and 'Wit and Drollery', 1682, and with music (Packington's Pound) in 'Pills to Purge Melancholy'. ABC's for 3 versions of "Packington's Pound" are B362-4 on my website. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: judy Date: 28 Apr 98 - 02:47 PM I think it was either Tom Lehrer (and possibly the Animaniacs) who I heard sing the periodic table elements to the tune of the Pirates of Penzance. I may have it somewhere. enjoy! judy |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE ELEMENTS (Tom Lehrer)^^ From: judy Date: 28 Apr 98 - 03:07 PM And here it is: To the tune of "I am a modern Major General" THE ELEMENTS There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium, And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium, And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium, And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium. There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium, And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium, There's strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium. There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium, And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium, And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and caesium. And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium. There's sulphur, californium and fermium, berkelium, And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium, And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
Thank goodnes I didn't have to type all that in! There's a Tom Lehrer website out there. Sorry don't have the URL
enjoy! |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bruce O. Date: 28 Apr 98 - 04:29 PM There's one missing, not counting 3 that the last I knew didn't have names yet (104, 105, and 106). Lr above is #102. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bruce. O. Date: 28 Apr 98 - 04:31 PM Sorry, Lr is #103. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Paul Stamler Date: 28 Apr 98 - 04:39 PM Logan English recorded a song (by Oscar Brand?) called "The McBurney Square" [or "Appendectomy Country Style"], which is an anatomically correct description of an appendectomy. The only release of which I'm aware is on a 2-LP set from Columbia Special Products in the '60s called "Medicine, Mind and Music". It's a real stitch. Peace. Paul |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Mary Date: 28 Apr 98 - 05:16 PM Thanks for all the replies so far...they are just perfect for what my friend, the newly retired doctor and soon to be folk song teacher, is looking for. As soon as I teach him how to post his own message, he jump in this discussion to! Thanks again and please keep posting the ideas. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: RS Date: 28 Apr 98 - 10:11 PM Then there's the old favourite anatomy review: Head and shoulders, knees and toes Knees and toes, knees and toes Head and shoulders, knees and toes Eyes, ears, mouth and nose! |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Pauline Lerner Date: 28 Apr 98 - 11:16 PM I was never a medical student, but I was a research biochemist for years. While spending hours dissecting rats, my colleagues and I amused ourselves by singing such songs as "Here I stand, heart in hand..." (Beatles), "I've got a lot of liver to do," "Dem bones gonna rise again," and "So lung, it's been good to know you." My apologies for grossing out all you non biomedical types. Pauline |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Catfeet Date: 29 Apr 98 - 12:06 AM How about the Monty Python Medical Love Song? That ought to count for some good STD's. Catfeet |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 29 Apr 98 - 03:06 AM I listened to the Carter Family song again. Between each of the verses I gave there is a chorus:
Chewin' chawin' gum This makes it a more self-contained song without the other verses. Speaking of grossing out: There is an old parody on the popular song Jealousy called "Leprosy". I (happily) don't remember much of it--just one verse.
Leprosy, I suffer from leprosy but the rest isn't any better. Murray |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bruce O. Date: 29 Apr 98 - 10:05 AM Pauline, above, is also a fiddler. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Carl Date: 29 Apr 98 - 11:22 AM "Cod Liver Oil", not really medical, but sort of that. "Self-curing", at least for me. It cured me from listening pop stuff only, for it has been on my first Dubliners record which made me become a folk freak (from the view of my friends...). |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Bert Date: 30 Apr 98 - 05:00 PM Auntie Maggie's Remedy |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Clarke Date: 02 May 98 - 01:40 AM To Bill D, Thank you for the portion of the song you sent regarding songs appropriate for medical students. This is what I am looking for. Could you send me more verses and possibly a source that I could track down? Please send any other songs or ideas you may have. Thanks, Clarke |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Clarke Date: 02 May 98 - 01:50 AM Art Thieme, Thank you Art for your contribution to songs appropriate for medical students. Do you know where I can find any songs by Urethra Franklin? Clarke |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: alison Date: 02 May 98 - 09:35 PM Hi, My hubby reading over my shoulder just suggested "The first cut is the deepest." "Fever" "Mack the Knife", "The foot bone's connected to the ankle bone.......etc." [Dem Bones/Dry Bones] or what about the Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren one...... "My heart goes boom-biddy-boom-biddy,boom-biddy-boom-biddy,boom-biddy-boom-biddy,boom boom boom!!" Possibly called, "(Well) Goodness Gracious Me." Slainte Alison |
Subject: Lyr Add: LIKE A SURGEON (Weird Al Yankovic/Madonna From: alison Date: 02 May 98 - 09:40 PM Hi, Here's another classic from Weird Al Yankovic. (Obviously sung to the tune of "Like a virgin."
LIKE A SURGEON
I finally made it through med school.
I was last in the class,
Hey, like a surgeon,
Better give me all your gauze, nurse,
Let me see that IV
Like a surgeon, hey!
It's a fact. I'm a quack.
Like a surgeon, hey!
Like a surgeon, ooh hoo, like a surgeon, Enjoy Slainte Alison |
Subject: RE: Folk songs sung by medical students and doctor From: Clarke Date: 07 May 98 - 06:06 PM From: cgdaniels@mindspring.com (Clarke Daniels) Subject: Medical Folk Music
Hi, Clarke Daniels MD |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE FOUR ABLE PHYSICIANS^^ From: Bill D Date: 07 May 98 - 11:08 PM The complete verses to the song above...sorry I lost track of finishing it...from a set of records of Elizabethan bawdy songs put out by Oscar Brand in the 60s...There was also a songbook published with most of the songs in it...I have the book and the condensed set of records... THE FOUR ABLE PHYSICIANS
You maidens and wives and young widows rejoice
"From fair London town, there have lately come down,
"They have a new drug that is called the close hug
In the morning you need not be robbed of your rest,
"On your back you must lie, with your belly raised high
On silver or gold they never lay hold |
Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE GONNA NEED THAT PURE RELIGION^^ From: Nora Date: 08 May 98 - 12:36 AM I checked, and "You're gonna need that pure religion" has a verse about a doctor. ch: Yr gonna need that pure religion hallelu Yr gonna need that pure religion hallelu Yr gonna need that pure religion pure religion take you home to heaven Yr gonna need that pure religion hallelu Mother & father by the bed a cryin hallelu Mother & father by the bed a cryin hallelu Mother & father by the bed a cryin Said, Lord have mercy our child is dyin Yr gonna need that pure religion hallelu Doctor standing lookin sad hallelu Doctor standin lookin sad hallelu Doctor standin lookin sad Let the lord have mercy our child is dead Yr gonna need that pure religion hallelu chorus See that train comin round the curve hallelu See that train comin round the curve hallelu See that train comin round the curve Now she is strainin every nerve Yr gonna need that pure religion hallelu From Lucinda Williams "Ramblin" Smithsonian Folkways 1991 reissue Nora |
Subject: Lyr Add: My God How the Money Rolls In^^ From: John in Brisbane Date: 08 May 98 - 01:40 AM I may have missed it, but I haven't seen any mention of 'My God How The Money Rolls In' with: My brother's a medical student, With instrument's long, sharp and thin, He only knows one operation, My God how the money rolls in. Regards John |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Pauline Lerner Date: 08 May 98 - 02:28 AM Another verse to "Oh Lord How the Money Rolls In"
My grandpa makes cheap prophylactics |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Pauline Lerner Date: 08 May 98 - 02:36 AM This one probably doesn't fit the definition of a folk song (whatever that is), but it has been chanted by generations of med students to remember the names of the cranial nerves. Unfortunately, I only know the clean version. Maybe someone can help with the other, more popular version. On old Olympus's topmost top, a Finn and German valtz and hop. The first letter of each word is also the first letter of the name of a cranial nerve. Pauline |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Celtic-End Singer Date: 08 May 98 - 09:12 AM I was very interested to learn of your compiling of a medical folksong collection. As a medical student myself it would be really great if you could send me a copy when it's all done. I'm quite willing to pay for any (reasonable) expenses etc. Cheers! |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: dick greenhaus Date: 08 May 98 - 10:06 PM Medical Mnemonics- (CRanial nerves) On old Olympus' towering top A fast-assed German Viewed a hop. My favorite is the one for the bones in the foot: Never lower Tillie's pants; mother may come home. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Clarke Date: 09 May 98 - 10:50 PM To Bill D, Nora, John in Brisbane, Pauline Lerner, Celtic-EndSinger, and Dick Greenhaus: Thank you all for your contributions to "Songs Appropriate for Medical Students." Medical mnemonics was an excellent idea that had not occurred to me. I became nostalgic as I recalled the names of the cranial nerves and the tarsal bones that I had so slavishly memorized long ago. Celtic-Endsinger, If you will send me your email address, I will let you know when a compilation of these songs is available. Please put me in touch with any of your classmates that you think may have knowledge of further songs. |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: 'Berta' Date: 10 May 98 - 08:42 PM To be awfully graphic: a student of Radiology needed to know the principles of electricity as they were applied to ionizating radiation; that is, OHM'S LAW: The angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat! Appologies to all.... 'Berta |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Kyra Date: 10 May 98 - 09:13 PM Try "My Favorite Diseases" by Mike Agranoff, sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things". If you'd like the lyrics, send me an email at kiwi@unagi.cybernothing.org and I'll send them to you. I warn you, though, my Email might be down. If it gets rejected, just send it again a day or so later and it should get through to me. Sla/n, Kyra |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE FORMULARY SONG^^ From: Mark Cohen Date: 23 Jan 00 - 09:31 PM I just discovered this thread when I put my name in the search box while looking for something else, and I'm happy to refresh it, as it's right up my artery--er, alley. Here is my piece called "The Formulary Song", which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1977, when I was a senior medical student. I sent a copy to Tom Lehrer, and he replied, "As a lifelong apostle of plagiarism, I certainly have no objection." ^^^ THE FORMULARY SONG by Mark Cohen (to the tune of "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General" by Gilbert and Sullivan, with acknowledgment--but no apology--to Tom Lehrer) There's Aldomet and Atromid and Antivert and Atarax And Dexamyl and Donnagel and Demerol and Dulcolax There's Tylenol and Tegretol and Riopan and Regitine And Pertofrane and Pavabid and also Pyribenzamine Now if you're down there's Dexedrine and Benzedrine and Elavil And if you're up there's Librium and Valium and Vistaril There's Thorazine and Stelazine for calming schizophrenics with There's Seconal for sleeping and for mania there's Eskalith There's Benadryl and Gelusil and Placidyl and Peritrate And Decadron and Parafon and Sinequan and Sorbitrate And Miltown, Motrin, Medrol, Maalox, Myleran, and Miradon And Mycostatin, Micronor, Mandelamine, and Mylicon There's Omnipen and Principen and Tegopen and Torecan And Betapen and Versapen and Pyopen and Percodan There's Robitussin, Garamycin, also Butazolidin And Furadantin, Coricidin, even Triaminicin There's Dimetane and Dimetapp and Dymelor and Dimecol And Diuril and Dialose and Diamox and Disophrol There's Darvocet for headaches when you'd really rather stay at home But if the other end is sore, the one you need is Proctofoam I know you're getting weary and my song is getting pretty grim With all these pharmaceuticals from Actifed to Zyloprim But just imagine what would happen if I tried to fan the flames By starting over once again and using all generic names (Like hydrochlorothiazide and phenylpropanolamine And propylthiouracil . . . I think you see just what I mean!) Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students From: Mark Cohen Date: 23 Jan 00 - 09:37 PM Oops! (I know doctors aren't supposed to say that, but what the hell...) I must have goofed and left out one line. Here's the corrected verse; maybe Joe can fix the original. Please? There's Benadryl and Gelusil and Placidyl and Peritrate And Decadron and Parafon and Sinequan and Sorbitrate And Miltown, Motrin, Medrol, Maalox, Myleran and Miradon And Mycostatin, Micronor, Mandelamine and Mylicon |
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