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This One I Wrote This Afternoon.**lf**that&ampapos;s The Truth.**lf**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 &ampapos;mononucleosis&ampapos;...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&ampapos;s A Real Good Subject For A Song. And, That&ampapos;s Why I Originally Wrote It Was That She Had Come Home With This Mononucleosis About Six Months Ago (She&ampapos;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&ampapos;m A Very, You Know, Thrilling Detective. And I Was Wondering, Well, You Know, I&ampapos;m...i Guess I&ampapos;m Old-Fashioned Because About Six Months Ago She Got One Of Those Learner&ampapos;s Brassieres...well Actually She&ampapos;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&ampapos;s Really Getting The Hang Of It Now.**lf**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...**lf**we Don&ampapos;t Have Any Arrangement Of It, They&ampapos;re Just Kinda Faking It, And We&ampapos;ll Just Try It. If It Works, We&ampapos;ll Stick It On The Album, If Not, I&ampapos;ll Just...kill Myself.**lf**go Ahead.**lf**lyricwiki