My Bonnie – #22

My grandpa had an awesome sense of humor.  My dad has the same type of sense of humor, actually.  My dad sings a song to the tune of Yesterday by the Beatles that cracks me up every time I hear it:

Leprosy.
That old rotten man just touched my knee.
Now my flesh is falling off of me.
Oh, I think I got leprosy.

Suddenly
I’m just half the man I used to be.
There are pieces coming off of me.
Yes, leprosy came suddenly.

Why’d my arm fall off?
I don’t know, no one will say.
I know something’s wrong,
’cause my leg just walked away (without me.)

Yesterday,
I could always lounge the time away.
Now my bed is in a slimy way,
Oh, leprosy’s ruined my day.

Why did I get cursed
with this rot? I need to hide.
I’m sure I’m diseased
for my spleen fell out my side. (ooooohhhh.)

Leprosy
has become a big problem for me.
All my friends now run away from me.
Oh how I hate this leprosy.

Ewwwwwwww, this is gross.

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I know, it’s gross – but it still makes me laugh.

Grandpa’s song, according to my dad, was a parady of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean:

“My Bonnie has tuberculosis, my Bonnie has only one lung,

She spits up a bloody concotion, and then calls it soup.

Campbells Soup, Mmm Mmm Good. “

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Dad said he was visiting Grandpa one day, and there was a little kid walking in the halls singing the real My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean.  Grandpa was pretty far gone at that point, and not able to recognize things – however when he heard that song he began to chuckle.  We can’t know for sure what he was thinking at that point in time – but our guess is that Campbells Soup was making an appearance.