Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Post-Valentine Greeting

I'm sending my liver to Liverpool,
My pancreas off to Peru;
My stomach and kidney
For the summer to Sydney,
But my heart I'm still saving for you...
--Author unknown (and perhaps too ashamed to identify himself)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aw c'mon, don't be shy. We know you did it.

Anonymous said...

Tom Lehrer, if I'm not mistaken.

Buce said...

Lehrer certainly sounds plausible. But I knew my Lehrer pretty well in his day and I don't remember it as his. A Google of Lehrer hasn't turned it up yet, though I concede that I may have rewritten it over time (though I am pretty sure I did not write it in the first place).

Anonymous said...

Sorry, not Tom Lehrer. It was George Carlin. (An understandable mix-up, I think.) Here's the Carlin version:

"I sent my sinuses to Arizona,
I sent my liver to Peru,
I sent my lungs and my kidneys,
for the summer to Sydney,
But I'm sendin' my heart to you!"

Buce said...

Ah, Carlin sounds exactly right. More plausible than Lehrer, though I cannot say how.

Still, I like my own version better.