Folk songs appropriate for medical students

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Cappuccino
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 04:37 PM

In Edinburgh once I saw a great band of medical students, playing under the name of The Peristalsis Five.

It is, apparently, the movement of the bowel.

- ian B

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 04:26 PM

How about 'Pills' or 'Cholesterol', both by Glaswegian Adam McNaughtan? And 'Cod Liver Oil' (the one without the Orange Juice - the music hall song made popular by The Dubliners)?
I'd love to know which songs Clarke chose and how the students reacted to them!

BTW, the 'Burke and Hare' song Iamarca quoted far above was written by Robin Laing.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: DonD
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 12:37 PM

Learned men that use the pen
Have writ your praises high
You sweet poteen from Ireland green
That's made from corn and rye.
So away all pills, it'll cure all ills
Be you Christian, Pagan or Jew
Take off your coat, open up your throat
To the dear old mountain dew.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 11:53 AM

I had Dr. Freud by the Gateway Singers at the Hungry I, but I wouldn't be surprised if the KTrio did it too.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Genie
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 10:51 AM

"...and the doctor said, "Give 'em jug band music. It's bound to make 'em feel just fine!"

§;- D

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,Fossil at home
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 05:51 AM

Loudon Wainwright III: "(I went to) The Doctor".

Must be on his website somewhere.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 06:20 AM

I recently overheard an unknown member of the audience who seemed to have several verses that were "cute," although I only caught:

To the tune of (Come to me my) Melancholy Baby -

Never give Viagra to a lawyer,
'Cause it only makes them tall...

Anyone recognize it?

John

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,David Richoux (KFJC FM)
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 12:17 AM

Hi, I just happened to find this site & forum while researching a favorite song. Earlier in the thread someone mentions "SOME LITTLE BUG IS GOING TO FIND YOU" and the Mudcat database gives this reference to the lyric:

Note: Surprisingly enough, this dates back to the 1890s. Brad Kincaid recorded it in the '30s, and Phil Harris recorded it in the 1940s. Sally Rogers recorded it on Love Will Guide Us, Flying Fish. RG

From what I know about this song, it was written in 1915 (maybe it was influenced by the influenza epidemic of that year) Music by: Silvio Hein Lyrics by: Benjamin Hapgood Burt and Roy Atwell for a Franz Lehar Operetta "Alone At Last" and made popular by Roy Atwell. You can see an image of the song sheet at http://www.parlorsongs.com/issues/2000-9/2000-9.asp

BTW, There is a fine recording of this song by Eubie Blake and Ivan Harold Browning that was recorded in 1972.

Standard disclaimers apply - this info came off the internet, after all...

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 17 May 00 - 02:28 PM

I once had a physics prof who taught us a song to the tune of Men of Harlech, which incorporated some formulas to memorise.
Reviewing anatomy and physiology on-line today, I found a muscle song included in the outline notes at http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~revie/notes/bio131/apch10.htm
If you don't want to read all the notes do a search for the word "song" on the page. I expect you may find other songs if you go to the home page and look through the other biology notes at this site.

I was at a waulking song workshop with Anna Martin recently. She showed us how the songs kept the rhythyms for fulling the tweed and I was wondering if I could work up a song sequence to do massage by. There's a challenge for someone, the rhythyms have to flow from effleurage through to hacking and cupping and back to effleurage. ... although I've always said I don't like to hear music while giving or receiving massage, that it's too distracting.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Crowhugger
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 08:38 AM

KT, maybe something here...

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Crowhugger
Date: 18 Feb 00 - 08:00 AM

I always wondered how surgeons were trained.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 06:30 PM

Thanks, Arkie! I'll have to learn these and do them for my surgeon friends.

Aloha (from Eugene Oregon today)
Mark

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 04:13 PM

After posting the above excerpt of "Doctor Feel-Good" I spent a good deal of time searching the web for the lyrics. I never succeeded, but I was able to find out this much: It was written by Willie Lee "Piano Red" Perryman (1911-85), recorded by him in 1961 and published as a single on the Okeh label (#7144). It became a big hit so that Perryman subsequently adopted "Dr. Feelgood" as his stage name, and when he brought out an album in 1962, it was called "Doctor Feelgood and the Interns." Fascinating, huh?

Perhaps someone with more skill or determination than I will continue the search. I'm giving up.

Subject: Lyr Add: APPENDECTOMY COUNTRY STYLE (Oscar Brand)
From: Arkie
Date: 17 Feb 00 - 12:41 AM

Or how about this?

APPENDECTOMY – COUNTRY STYLE
Oscar Brand

Wash your hands and get them dry.
Keep them clean and keep them high.
When you're sure that you are able,
Promenade up to the table
And get that appendix, lay it bare.
We're doing the McBurney Square.

Now drape that patient neat and tight.
Bare the quadrant of the lower right.
Do si do and careful all,
While you make an incision in that wall.
Right hand under, if you dare,
Doing the McBurney Square.

Swing that knife blade with a toss
Along the muscles, not across.
With your fingers then induce
The peritoneum to work loose.
You mustn't rip and you mustn't tear,
Doing the McBurney Square.

When the cavity's been breached,
The secum and appendix reached,
Put a purse string suture on the base
And sprinkle gauze pads round the place.
Duck for the oyster, I declare,
Doing that McBurney Square.

With a peritoneal cuff inside,
Crush, ligate, and then divide.
Swing your partner; I'll swing mine.
Paint the stump with iodine.
Now force it back again with care,
Doing that McBurney Square.

Tie the purse string very tight.
Suture the peritoneum right.
Let those muscles settle in,
Then count the pads and close the skin.
Salute the patient; collect your fee.
You've done the appendectomy.

Subject: Lyr Add: SURGERY (Oscar Brand)
From: Arkie
Date: 16 Feb 00 - 09:02 PM

How about this one?

SURGERY by Oscar Brand

Why not be an operator,
Cut it now and sew it later,
Surgery is where the heavy dough is.
If a patient's got ptomaine,
You can free him from the pain,
Soon as you discover where the toe is.

CHORUS: Surgery, surgery,
First you cut and then you stitch
Cut it out and you'll be rich;
Surgery, surgery,
There's no peril, Keep it sterile,
Surgery

Why waste time in diagnosis,
Life can be a bed of roses
And you never have to work your rear off
Your stream of life will soon be ripple-less
If he comes down with Erysipelas
All you have to do is take his ear off

CHORUS

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 16 Feb 00 - 08:11 PM

Mary in Kentucky-

Don't list 'em; post 'em!

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Feb 00 - 01:57 PM

Well, they call me the doctor (yeah, yeah!)
In my neighborhood (yeah, yeah!)
But my baby she calls me (yeah, yeah!)
Doctor Feelgood (yeah, yeah!)

Sorry, I can't remember any more.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Crowhugger
Date: 15 Feb 00 - 08:39 PM

Lovely loco locus!

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Feb 00 - 08:12 PM

Make that fourth one ß Oxidation

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Feb 00 - 08:07 PM

I found a wonderful book titled The Biochemists' Songbook which puts the words to 19 different biochemical processes (or syntheses or whatever) to the tunes of "well-known" songs. I am certainly not a biochemist, but this little book looks like a gem! Here's the book info and a table of contents. My source (college student) says it's available from BarnesandNoble.com but not Amazon.com. There are complex biochemical diagrams, music notation and an average of ten verses for each song.

The Biochemists' Songbook
2nd edition
by Harold Baum
foreword by Sir Hans Krebs
Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1995
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ISBN 07484 04163
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data are available

CONTENTS:

The Michaelis Anthem -- Tune: The Red Flag
The Praise of E.M.P. -- Tune: The British Grenadiers
Waltz Round the Cycle -- Tune: Waltzing Matilda
&$223; Oxidation -- Tune: There is a Tavern in the Town
The Battle Hymn of the Aerobes: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Chemiosmotic Theory -- Tune: The Eton Boating song
Photosynthesis -- Tune: Auld Lang Syne
Blood Sugar -- Tune : The Road to the Isles
The Glyoxylate Cycle -- Tune: The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Pentose Phosphate Shunt -- Tune: Macnamara's Band
Fatty Acid Biosynthesis -- Tune: Men of Harlech
We're Here Because Urea -- Tune: The Bold Gendarmes
Protein Biosynthesis -- Tune: My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean
Haem Biosynthesis -- Tune: A Policeman's Lot is not a Happy One
Metaboliam of Odd-Number Carbon Fatty Acids -- Tune: Tit Willow
Regulation of Ketogenesis -- Tune: Clementine
Purine Biosynthesis -- Tune: Camptown Races
Cholesterol Biosynthesis -- Tune: Cwm Rhondda
A Cautionary Carol -- Tune: Good King Wenceslas

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 06:30 PM

Mbo, I didn't mean to downplay the seriousness of the affliction, it just fit well that way. You raise a good point, though. Medically related humor is always tricky because you're dealing with people's pain and distress. Unfortunately, medical training is stressful and medical students often tend to attack others' weaknesses when they feel inadequate. I'm afraid it's part of the human condition--it's certainly not limited to medical students--and I confess to doing my share. (That's one reason I don't perform my VD song anymore.) Much of what is considered humorous by some people is offensive to some people in some contexts at some times. But we keep muddling through, hopefully with good humor, and can try not to offend but to amuse.
Sorry for the sermon...it just broke out.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 06:14 PM

Melanie Safka's version of Psychotherapy. And the Id goes marching on.

Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 05:05 PM

Touching on the surgeon/barber theme, try the DigiTrad and look up 'Sweeney Todd the Barber'..... guaranteed to keep you off the pork pies for a while.... and amusing to boot.

LTS

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,blind desert pete
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 04:46 PM

RE: Crainial nerves. Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel a girls vagina such heaven

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: John Moulden
Date: 25 Jan 00 - 08:26 AM

Try the Poem - by Thomas Hood called "Mary’s Ghost" singable to various Irish tunes - pick your own - It's about body snatching and anatomy.

The last stanza is:

The day does dawn, the cock does crow; It's time for us to part.
You'll always be my lover Though some doctor has my heart.
You need not go weep on my grave And think that there I be.
There ain't a single atom left Of my anatomy.

Hood wrote another body-snatching poem called "Jack Hall" and Robert Southey wrote the wonderful "The Surgeon’s Warning" - perhaps not singable but great stuff.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 11:35 PM

Probably a little more for undertakers but also can work for the medicos, I posted this one a while back...CLANK HERE: Talking Socialized Anti-Undertaker Blues by Patrick Sky...Kinda the story of my life.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,sheila
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 11:17 PM

Edinburgh folkies and medical students used to sing Stuart McGregor's 'Sandy Bell's Man', about a young girl led astray by an Edinburgh medic.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 11:10 PM

Stereotypical student MDs should be required to learn "It's Only A Wee-Wee, So What's All the Fuss?".

A.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: BillFisher
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 11:02 PM

By the Time I Get to Pharynx

A song about STD's: Careless Love.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Mbo
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 10:47 PM

Know all about that Proctofoam...if only Tom new how deadly serious "sore" can be.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 10:41 PM

If you search for @doctor in DIgiTrad, you'll get 13 hits. If you search for songs that mention "doctor" or "doctors" you'll get well over 100. Not to mention gems like Our Baby Died Last Night. And all of the variations of The Unfortunate Rake that have our hero perishing of syphilis, or white mercury (a cure for syphilis) or pila cotia (Latin for white mercury).

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: reggie miles
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 05:21 PM

Arkie, an excellent choice. Someone who works in a sterilization unit for a local hospital just asked me for a copy of my rendition of "Some Little Bug". So they could use it as part of a class to train newbies to the profession.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 05:13 PM

From a former Public Health weenie - there's a song by Tom Lehrer called something like "I Got it from Agnes," but I can't find it in the DB, so I may have the wrong title. I seem to recall it's in his book, and I seem to recall I have the book...somewhere.

I can't believe nobody's mentioned this, to the tune of "Yesterday," but I can't find it in the DB either. I'm sure there are more verses:

leprosy
All my parts are falling off of me
I'm not half the man I used to be
Oh, I think I have leprosy
Why my nose had to go I don't know
It didn't say
...(can't remember)...
Syphilis
Now it even hurts to take a piss (poetic license - not technically correct)
Oh, how did I end up like this
I think I have syphilis...

And I used to sing this when I was learning how to do fecal exams in a school for vet technicians. To the tune of "Feelings" -
Feces, nothing more than feces...

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: lamarca
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 03:54 PM

There are a couple of songs about Burke and Hare, the infamous body-snatchers of Edinburgh - they stole bodies to sell to the medical school for dissection. When business picked up, they stopped waiting for already dead bodies and started "helping" local bums become corpses...

One version is in the DT here.

There's a different song on the same topic performed by Ed Miller on his "Live at the Cactus Cafe" CD - the chorus goes:

Burke and Hare were a terrible pair,
Their deeds were beyond belief
For they worked underground in Edinburgh town
The cruelest kind of thief.

Then there's the old-time single entendre song, "It Won't Hurt No More", about a young lady who goes to the doctor/dentist to fix what ails her. It doesn't seem to be in the DT, but Double Decker Stringband does a fine rendition of it on one of their albums. If I get time later, I'll transcribe it.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Nogs
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 03:23 PM

And to remind the prospective doctors that they are not gods in everyone's eyes:

From Nottingham Ale:

And you doctors who more execution have done
with powder and potion and bolus and pill . .

From 'A Pint of Old Peculier':

Forswear I say their physics all,
let no such doctors rule 'yer
The one true cure, the nostrum sure,
A pint of Old Peculier

Also from 'Delia's Gone':

Sent for the Doctor, doctor came too late,
Sent for the minister to lay out Delia straight

Nogs (MD)

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 09:14 AM

Well, they may not be folk but I can recycle some suggestions from a previous Hallowe'en thread:

When you grow too old to scream (I'll have you to dismember)

Hey there (You with the bolt through your neck)

for plastic surgeons:

I'd grown accustomed to that face

and for cloners:

I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad

And one that would really suit most medical students:

I want a blow-up doll that I can call my own,
the one the other fellows cannot steal
[when I get home at night I will inflate her...]

If I ever have to go to hospital, I was only joking, guys!

RtS

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Marymac90
Date: 24 Jan 00 - 01:39 AM

Cocaine's for horses, not for men
Doctor said it'd kill me but he didn't say when
Cocaine, messin' around my brain [Cocaine Blues]

I was looking to see if I had a recording by some male member of People's Music Network of an extremely funny song describing a proctoscopic examination, but I don't think I do. Perhaps it wasn't so much the lyrics as the ASL interpretation, but it had us all ROTFL.

Another song performed at People's Music Network that same year was one by Ruth Pelham about breast cancer, something about your body being fine and lovable with 2 breasts, 1 breast, or no breasts.

What I did find when I was looking for the above were a couple of tapes I have by Mark Levy, featuring songs like "Every Sperm does not Deserve a Name" "Babies are Replaceable" and "Waldeheimer's Disease".

Another group I know from People's Music Network is The Disabled in Action Singers. Their tape features "National Healthcare Blues", "Housecalls", and other related songs.

Ray Korona recorded a song called "Send me an Ambulance". He's also with People's Music Network, which, BTW, is meeting this coming weekend in Queens, NYC. Anyone who wants info about the PMN concert Friday, or workshops Sat and Sun, or these songs, please message me.

Peter Alsop wrote a kids' song called "My Body's Nobody's Body but Mine", and Marcie Boyd added more adult lyrics to the chorus.

Hope this is helpful.

Mary McCaffrey

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Arkie
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 11:24 PM

How did Some Little Bug is Going to Get You Someday get left out of this?

Cho: For some little bug is going to get you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Then he'll send for his bug friends
And all your troubles they will end,
For some little bug is gonna find you someday.

It's in the database.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: reggie miles
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 11:20 PM

There's one that a friend Larry Heagle wrote called Vasectomy that seems to work well in medical settings.

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 10:38 PM

Now the doctah said, he said son you don't need no pills (2x)
Just a handful of nickels and a jukebox will cure your ills.

(Boppin' the Blues by Carl Perkins)
========

And:
===================
She went down to the doctor, to see what she could find
To see what she could find, O Lord, to make her old man blind!

O feed him eggs, and marrowbone, feed them to him whole,
And soon he'll be so gosh-darned blind that he won't see you at all!

(Eggs and Marrowbone, trad., recorded by Richard Dyer-Bennett)
======================

Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 10:07 PM

Thanks Mark for the Formulary Song. I'm sending it to my two favorite pharmacists. BTW, one bawdy version of the cranial nerves starts with Oh, Oh, Oh. I can't remember the rest. Also, "Dry Bones" above (the shin bone connected to the knee bone) has some alternate lyrics.

Mary

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

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: 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 [e-mail] 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Pauline Lerner
Date: 08 May 98 - 02:28 AM

Another verse to "Oh Lord How the Money Rolls In"

My grandpa makes cheap prophylactics
He punches their heads with a pin,
My grandma does quickie abortions
Oh Lord how the money rolls in.