POISON IVY - PALIN'S WILEY
Artist: The Coasters (peak Billboard position # 7 in 1959)
Words and Music by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
She comes on like a rose but everybody knows
She'll get you in Dutch
You can look but you better not touch
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you're sleepin' poison ivy comes a'creepin'
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
She's pretty as a daisy but look out man she's crazy
She'll really do you in
If you let her under your skin
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you're sleepin' poison ivy comes a'creepin'
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
Measles make you bumpy
And mumps'll make you lumpy
And chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch
A common cold'll fool ya
And whooping cough can cool ya
But poison ivy, Lord'll make you itch!!
You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion
You'll be scratchin' like a hound
The minute you start to mess around
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you're sleepin' poison ivy comes a'creepin'
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
Measles make you bumpy
And mumps'll make you lumpy
And chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch
A common cold'll fool ya
And whooping cough can cool ya
But poison ivy, Lord'll make you itch!!
You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion
You'll be scratchin' like a hound
The minute you start to mess around
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you're sleepin' poison ivy comes a'creepin'
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
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From the diary of Karl Rove;
Poison Ivy, now that’s a song where blacks harmonized and stayed in their own groups…those were the days. Now what to do about our Sarah? She’s not as intellectual as dub, I know that. At least when he went all folksy, he didn’t clusterf@@k history in the process. And besides we’re a more scared, no make that much more scared country now than we were when we won in 2000. But she does have great appeal to those that she, well, appeals to. But how do we address her problem with the more liberal stuff like facts? I know, we will script her more and inform them less. Besides when people are scared they have short memories. But she just keeps on. She’s relentless, she’s crafty, she’s sly, she’ll trick them, and she’s got wiles…Rove dozes off as the tune of “poison ivy” drifts through his thoughts.
She comes on like she knows, a grizzly bear in panty hose
She’s in the news so much
But comes across so out of touch
Palin’s wiley, Palin’s wiley
From the far right while we’re sleeping
Palin slyly comes a creeping around
She’s pretty but she’s hazy, on facts she makes us crazy
She could do her party in
If they let her get under their skin
Palin’s wiley, Palin’s wiley
From the far right while we’re sleeping
Palin slyly comes a creeping around
Liberals make her grumpy, reporters make her jumpy
And Jews for Jesus is her bait and switch
though her knowledge will not school ya
her folksy style might fool ya
It’s just she makes so many cringe and twitch
From ocean cross to ocean
its teabagger emotion
that backs her on the ground
saying lock, and now load another round
Palin’s wiley, Palin’s wiley
From the far right while we’re sleeping
Palin slyly comes a creeping around
Liberals make her grumpy, reporters make her jumpy
And Jews for Jesus is her bait and switch
though her knowledge will not school ya
her folksy style might fool ya
It’s just she makes so many cringe and twitch
From ocean cross to ocean
its teabagger emotion
that backs her on the ground
saying lock, and now load another round
Palin’s wiley, Palin’s wiley
From the far right while we’re sleeping
Palin slyly comes a creeping around
