The things they did that night, it put my heart to fear.
They took the ice right off the corpse, and put it on the beer (bier)
He was a Sigma Chi at UNH. My mother, for her part, taught me a take-off on "Jealousy"
called Leprosy. Only the first part of the melody is used for the parody. Her's was just a touch different:
There goes my left ear
Right into my stale beer.She was a bit more reticent and embarrassed to be singing college drinking songs to her son. She was an Alpha Chi Omega.
I get the impression my parents were quite the lively partiers in college. When I was about sixteen I checked, of course, to see if I was, ahem, "born prematurely," but apparently not.
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If we are going to tango, then we need to include Tom Lehrer’s Masochism Tango , and some real down-home Tango from Carlos Gardel, the original Tango King:Mi Buenos Aires Querido [My Beloved Buenos Aires]. Carlos Gardel beat Buddy Holly and company in died-in-an-airplane-crash immortality by a quarter century.
There goes my eyeball--
It fell into my highball....
I've made sure my kids are aware of Dr Demento's Fishheads song. I hate the stupid thing but John used to love to sing it.
I recall a version of John Lennon's "Yesterday" re-written:
Leprosy.
All the skin is falling off of me.
I'm not half the man I used to be
For leprosy's got hold of me.
Kiss me quick,
Before I lose my upper lip.
I don't even have a nose to pick.
Since Leprosy got hold of me.
I'm sure there's more, but that's what comes to recall.
I regularly sing "Lydia the Tatooed Lady." I think in a pinch the girls could pick it up and sing it themselves. Then there's "A Capital Ship".
Dubbahdee- good one.
Which reminds me of my father's take on Elvis's "Love Me Tender."
Love me tender, love me sweet
Come to the garden and smell my feet
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