Some might get offended. I didn't think it was that funny... but the pacing was GOOD! so you get a 5/3/5 from me. Great job.

I guess it must be a case of convergent evolution, but nearly all of this is in one of a dozen other "leprosy" parodies you might find round the net.

I agree. Very good pacing, and good lines, too. I don't know about the other leprosy parodies; hopefully you haven't been stealing lines, because that would be really lame. On the assumption that you didn't, I gave you a 5/5/5

Sorry! I voted before I realized this wasn't the one I thought it was! The first one is MUCH better than this one: Yesterday, piano was an easy game to play Now I have these stubs that still decay Oh I've acquired leprosy... or something like. I'll keep looking!

this is not the "original" (if you will), parody to the song "Yesterday". This is a rip-off of a rip-off parody. The original was done by British radio comics. There was a line that was: "There are buzzards flying over me" "Yes, I've lost my chance for extacy" "oh, leprocy, came suddenly" "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be" "All my skin is falling off of me" ......or something to that effect. This cheese-dick: "Phantom-HitchHooker" ...is trying to be something he is not. .....funny ......and rythmic Cheeze Dikz R U PhantumHitchHooker

this is not the "original" (if you will), parody to the song "Yesterday". This is a rip-off of a rip-off parody. The original was done by British radio comics. There was a line that was: "There are buzzards flying over me" "Yes, I've lost my chance for extacy" "oh, leprocy, came suddenly" "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be" "All my skin is falling off of me" ......or something to that effect. This cheese-dick: "Phantom-HitchHooker" ...is trying to be something he is not. .....funny ......and rythmic Cheeze Dikz R U PhantumHitchHooker

Yah yah, I believe Tom Lehrer did that song. I believe you are guilty of plagiarism. Please come with me. Come vit me you'll be my little sunshine baby.l

It's kind of mean, but I loved this song! 555!

i found this very offencive as i have leprosy and my arms have fallen of and my legs have fallen off and my spleen has fallen out of my side and my bed is very slimy i hate my life i hate all of you go away im going to cry byebye

Was the original not by Jasper Carrott, the Brummie comedian? I have thought for the last 20 years it was......I may have been wrong though.

Heard this about 30 years ago and remember the following lines: Suddenly, there are pieces falling off of me. Now I've lost my chance for ecstasy, How I despise my leprosy. And there was a line that went something like: Why my tongue had to go, I don't know... I couldn't say. I said nngrh hrmmph, ngerr! How I long for yesterday. And, yes, I think it was Tom Lehrer - a genius - or, wait...was it Firesign Theatre? A whole group of geniuses...Can't quite remember. I am going with Tom Lehrer. Firesign Theater did the Loosner's Castor Oil song. If you want an experience you will always cherish, drop a tab of acid and listen to "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?" - in stereo. Right on! Power to the people!

It should be "Why, my, tongue fell off I dont know, I couldn't say."

it was amazing as as i need

It was pretty good. Like my dad's version better tho

I saw jasper carrott do this in Cambridge 1980 in a tent. Leprosy I'm not half the man I used to be. ...

Lol. Some might find it offensive but I find it “meh”. 5/3/4

I remember a scene from the movie "Papillon" where Steve McQueen as Papillon, the escapee from Devil's island, travels to an isolated (is there any other?) leper colony to get a boat. So, the head of the colony's Leper council asks him "Do you like a good cigar?" When Papillon says he does, the dude pulls the one he's smoking out of his mouth and says, "Here ... try THIS one." .............. Best leper line E-VUH!

I heard a version of this by a guitarist on the streets of Perth probably 40 years ago. Slight difference it was my left leg lying in front of me (I think) but defs I am not half the man I used to be. I often wonder where he ended up.

I recall a line, "Yesterday, I had five fingers now I've only 3...."

off to a Colony

Some of these lyrics are original, or at least new to me, but some match a version of this song I’ve been singing since 1977. I won’t say plagiarized, since it could be crazy random happenstance… but maybe at least a bit derivative … *and* poorly researched, e.g., “slimy,” since afaik, leprosy is a rather “dry” condition.

The classic version of this is credited to a vocal quartet credited as Eu4ria. The second stanza here is practically the same as that recording, but I still give this author credit for originality for the resti of their parody, if that wasn't a serendipitous occurrence..