This one I wrote this afternoon.
That's the truth.
I had written the first little part of this,
and I sang it two weeks ago Sunday on the Ed Sullivan
show, and...the song is called "Mononucleosis".
..and my daughter, I talked to her,
and she said all the kids in her school,
there were a hundred kids in her junior high school
who had it, and they think it's a real good subject
for a song. And, that's why I originally wrote it was
that she had come home with this mononucleosis about
six months ago (she's thirteen),
and then Life magazine came out a month or so later
with an article on it that explained that it was the
kissing disease. So I put those two facts together.
I'm a very, you know, thrilling detective.
And I was wondering, well,
you know, I'm...I guess I'm old-fashioned because about
six months ago she got one of those learner's brassieres...Well
actually she's learning real good if you want to know!
I mean, the first couple of weeks it used to slide
down and dangle around her ankles and trip her,
but she's really getting the hang of it now.
Anyway, so, I dedicated this song sort of to her because
of the curiosity that was aroused in my mind by these
two things happening at once. And it goes like this...
We don't have any arrangement of it,
they're just kinda faking it,
and we'll just try it. If it works,
we'll stick it on the album, if not, I'll just...kill myself.
Go ahead.