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Song Parodies -> "He Has Lost a Leg Tonight"
Original Song Title:
"Can You Feel The Love Tonight?"
Original Performer:
DIsney's Lion King
Parody Song Title:
"He Has Lost a Leg Tonight"
Parody Written by:
Andria
The Lyrics
My inaugural entry to Decathlon Part 3 (Round 9), about a man who had severe gangrene of one leg, didn't know it, lost the leg and regained mobility.
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*O.S.: Operating suite, the room in which surgery is performed.
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*O.S.: Operating suite, the room in which surgery is performed.
The rancid stench of gangrene
There's maggots everywhere
Inside this chaotic O.S.* room
A limb loss, he will bear
He will lose his leg tonight
Gas gangrene made it rot
His leg, cut off, to preserve his health
He’ll die? No, we think not!
So many things to work with
The scalpels and the knives
To save his leg? Impossible!
Gangrene and health don’t jive
His leg’s cut off, stump sewn up
A wooden leg, to come
He lost his leg, he knows what’s up
‘Twas discharged to his chum
Now he has a wooden leg
Mobility, it adds
He walks, he stands, with aid of lignin peg
He ambulates, egads!
He don’t have a rotten leg
Fake limb, but he can walk
He is now the village laughingstock
Nicknamed “Gimp” and “Peg”
And he has no gangrene now
The doctors did real well
His rotten leg with grubs is history
In short, this man’s now well
There's maggots everywhere
Inside this chaotic O.S.* room
A limb loss, he will bear
He will lose his leg tonight
Gas gangrene made it rot
His leg, cut off, to preserve his health
He’ll die? No, we think not!
So many things to work with
The scalpels and the knives
To save his leg? Impossible!
Gangrene and health don’t jive
His leg’s cut off, stump sewn up
A wooden leg, to come
He lost his leg, he knows what’s up
‘Twas discharged to his chum
Now he has a wooden leg
Mobility, it adds
He walks, he stands, with aid of lignin peg
He ambulates, egads!
He don’t have a rotten leg
Fake limb, but he can walk
He is now the village laughingstock
Nicknamed “Gimp” and “Peg”
And he has no gangrene now
The doctors did real well
His rotten leg with grubs is history
In short, this man’s now well
© Andria Kilgore, 2010. All rights reserved.
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I knew a man with one leg named Smith. I forgot the name of his other leg, but you know how that goes...out of sight, out of mind! ;D
Thanks and LOL, OMR!
The extra chorus at the start of the song threw me off but this was great otherwise.
(Decath) Right back at ya! You sure put humor pertaining to gangrene amputation and prosthesis. When my cousin had prosthesis, she felt frustrated due to the fact that she feels like a worthless invalid. There's also something I found out on gangrene, but watch at your own risk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dry_Gangrene_with_dead_toes_and_visible_bone.JPG. Here's a medical insurance of $555. (ICD-9: 040.0, 785.4; CPT 27880, Sorry, couldn't resist coding the symptoms).
"Re-attaching" three fives to the appendages of your parody! Well done.
Flashback to Mary Poppins: "I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith"... ("Oh, really? What's the name of his other leg?")... 555 for your, er, "vivid" parody! ;)
Anyone who says this isn't a good parody doesn't have a leg to stand on..
Thanks to Christie (that gangrene picture wasn't as bad as some others I've seen, and thanks for the $555), Mark Scotti (5s much appreciated), Fiddlegirl (I remember that well), and AFW (your comment was so good, I can't think of anything funny to say)!
Cripes, all I've ever had was an operating *room* - and the bill was outrageous. How rich do you have to be to qualify for an operating *suite*? .. or was this one of those famous "all-suite" hotels/hospitals? $555/hr is probably a lot less than the actual cost of a mere "room".
@ Fiddlegirl: Pardon me, Miss, but your modifier is dangling. :)
@ Fiddlegirl: Pardon me, Miss, but your modifier is dangling. :)
Reminds me of the missing him missing limb song. ok parody
Thanks TT (I've heard "operating suite" more than operating room, and my dad is a urologist, so I've heard more than my fair share of medical jargon over the years), and thanks Phil (never heard that song, but thanks for your vote and comment!) :-)
Great idea! Never would have thought of that when I first heard it! Nice job!
Like Matthias, I got confused by the misplaced chorus...but this is some colorful storytelling, Andria!
Thanks, Abbott and Arwen.
Regarding the misplaced chorus, if I recall correctly, I accidentally omitted part of the parody that was spoken by Timon and Pumbaa in the OS when I copied and pasted the parody from my word processor. I'll definitely repost the full parody, with what I accidentally forgot, as soon as I get the time to dig through all the folders of parodies, ads I've written for eBay and Craigslist that I saved, mailing and email addresses and all kinds of other stuff on both of my computers. :-)
Regarding the misplaced chorus, if I recall correctly, I accidentally omitted part of the parody that was spoken by Timon and Pumbaa in the OS when I copied and pasted the parody from my word processor. I'll definitely repost the full parody, with what I accidentally forgot, as soon as I get the time to dig through all the folders of parodies, ads I've written for eBay and Craigslist that I saved, mailing and email addresses and all kinds of other stuff on both of my computers. :-)
(Dec3) Putting aside the omitted first four lines, this was a pretty good parody. Not LOL-funny, but still funny nonetheless. 555
Thanks, bobpie/Conqueror. :-) Rotting flesh is generally not LOL material, particularly when still attached to a living person or animal.
Excellent work on this parody. I can relate to this easily as it's happened to my brother.
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