Livin' With A Hernia

 Lyrics and Information

Living With A Hernia is the first song on the Polka Party album and the sixth song on the Greatest Hits 1 album and the eleventh song on disc 2 of Al-In-The-Box . It is a parody of "Living In America" by James Brown. There is a video to this, it can be found on:  "Weird Al" Yankovic - The Videos (DVD), "Weird Al" Yankovic - Video Library (VHS), and on The Ultimate Video Collection (DVD).

Here are the lyrics to Living With A Hernia:

Help me out dig!

All I do is grunt and groan
Hurts me to walk anywhere
Went to see my physician, Dr. Jones
He took my trousers off, told me to cough
Doctor says there ain't nothin' to discuss
He tells me any day I might have to wear a truss

Living with a hernia, ow
All the time, such aggravation
Living with a hernia
Gonna be my ruination
Living with a hernia
Got to have an operation
Feel so old, ow

Too much bad pain
Good God, drives me insane
Can't run, barely crawl
Got a bulge in my intestinal wall

Walk real funny, bless my soul
Can't play tennis and it's hard to bowl
You can't even do the splits now
Say it
Better call it quits now
Now I'm sick of all this dancin' anyhow

Living with a hernia
Hurts me bad in a tender location
Living with a hernia
Had enough humiliation
Living with a hernia, yow
Got to have an operation

Ow, I live with a hernia
Can't get up, can't bend over
Now I live with a hernia

Wait a minute
You may not be familiar with the common types
Of hernias that you could get
So just settle down, let me clue you in

There's incomplete! Incomplete!
Epigastric! Epigastric!
Bladder, huh Bladder!
Strangulated! Strangulated!
Lumbar hernia! Lumbat hernia!
Richter's hernia! Richter's hernia!
Obstructed Obstructed!
Inguinal and Direct!

Living with a hernia
Rupture
I said it's causin' me such irritation
Living with a hernia
Have to have my medication
Living with a hernia

I feel bad!