The Learner's Brassiere

This one I wrote this afternoon.

That's the truth.

I had written the first little part of this,

and I sang it two weeks ago Sunday on the Ed Sullivan

show, and...the song is called "Mononucleosis".

..and my daughter, I talked to her,

and she said all the kids in her school,

there were a hundred kids in her junior high school

who had it, and they think it's a real good subject

for a song. And, that's why I originally wrote it was

that she had come home with this mononucleosis about

six months ago (she's thirteen),

and then Life magazine came out a month or so later

with an article on it that explained that it was the

kissing disease. So I put those two facts together.

I'm a very, you know, thrilling detective.

And I was wondering, well,

you know, I'm...I guess I'm old-fashioned because about

six months ago she got one of those learner's brassieres...Well

actually she's learning real good if you want to know!

I mean, the first couple of weeks it used to slide

down and dangle around her ankles and trip her,

but she's really getting the hang of it now.

Anyway, so, I dedicated this song sort of to her because

of the curiosity that was aroused in my mind by these

two things happening at once. And it goes like this...

We don't have any arrangement of it,

they're just kinda faking it,

and we'll just try it. If it works,

we'll stick it on the album, if not, I'll just...kill myself.

Go ahead.