The Weakness of Mankind: "MEL and HIS HERNIA"

PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG : "Me and My Shadow", Rose, Dreyer and Jolson, 1927 as performed by Perry Como, Maurice Chevalier, and many others. 
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December 2015. To return to the corresponding post on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (and to see the lyrics without the chord-chart indications) click HERE.  

MEL and HIS HERNIA

(to the tune of "Me and My Shadow")

Mel:

Me with my hernia

Shuffling down the promenade

It's disconcerting;

Perhaps that's why for months I haven't played.

It's always in my pants --

Lopsided bulge.

But chicks who check

Don't want to indulge.

For me and my hernia

Time has come to part our ways.

Mel's Friend:

Mel and his hernia

Huffing down the avenue; ("Hey, Mel!")

Fellas discern 'cause

It's so displaced, it's not quite out of view.

"What sets things right? 

Herniorrhaphy.

You're so uptight. 

NOT 'hysterectomy'."

"So, go have your surgery.

Soon, before that thing turns blue."

HOTLINKS TO OTHER MEDICAL-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS

Adenoma

Avitaminoses 

As We Nuke It

Flaking Out is What They Do

Mel and His Hernia (see below)

Mergerwocky

Off-Patent Drug#19

Prostate Cancer

Reflux Romp

R-I-C-E

The Uniqueness of Nuclear

The Valgus and the Carbuncle

Under My Own Steam part#1

Under My Own Steam part#2

Where Has Neurosyphylis Gone?

...AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS

Singable Limerick-Medley #17: Nuclear Cardiology

Singable Limerick-Medley #20: Medical Imaging

UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT

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