SEP 30, singable satire: a lament -- "WHERE HAS NEUROPHYLIS GONE?"

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 30 in prior years ...

2020: insects, yellow jackets (illustrated poem)
2021: singable satire, Yogi Berra's wisdom (parody lyrics)

2022: singable satire, Postcard to Chubby Checker (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Broken Arrow (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 30, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS

Pete Seeger, "America's tuning fork"

ORIGINAL SONG: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger 1960, additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson, also recorded by Kingston Trio in 1962, and later by Peter, Paul and Mary, Marlene Dietrich, etc. Check out the YouTube videos by Seeger here, and by the Kingston Trio here.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014, performed at the CUJ (Corktown Ukulele Jam) Theme-Night, with photo here.

WHERE HAS NEUROSYPHILIS GONE?

(to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone")

Where is early Alzheimer’s?

Home-care agencies.

Mod’rate cases, few years passed

Fill long-term nursing homes

Weren’t some medications tried?

Functions slid and patients died;

Care system’s overburdened - 

When will we ever  learn?

Where has neurosyphilis gone,

Headstones fading?

Textbooks say it filled asylums

Long time ago.

Where Trep. pallidum would lurk,

Course of Penicillin works,

One thing we clearly learned,

One thing we clearly learned.

Where is all the Wernicke’s

encephalopathy?

Confabulating, filling wards

I saw it long ago.

Malnourished boozers off the road

Saved by whopping thiamine load

Another thing we’ve learned, 

A useful thing we’ve learned.

Hypothyroid mania?

 - Hormone treatment

Tots doomed by leukodystrophy?

 - Lorenzo’s oil

Polio? Almost gone, my son

- Vaccinated everyone.

Perhaps, few things we’ve learned,

I guess few things we’ve learned.

Where’s dementia research gone?

Some fills graveyards

Prod choline receptors? – seems not

Helpful in long term. 

Inhibit amyloid?

Doesn’t fill the treatment void.

Where’s that key thing to learn? 

Where’s that key thing to learn?

  

Where've Alzheimer's patients gone ?

Home-care agencies.

Mod’rate cases, few years passed

Fill long-term nursing homes.

Weren’t “preventive measures” done?

Gone to graveyards every one;

Care-system's overburdened - 

I hope someday we’ll learn.