Poison Ivy The Coasters The Rolling Stones The Lords Acoustic Cover

(c)1959 Words & Music Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller
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She comes on like a rose and everybody knows
She´ll get you in dutch, you can look but you´d better not touch

Poison ivy.. poison ivy
Well, late at night while you´re sleepin´
Poison ivy comes a-creepin´ all around..

She´s pretty as a daisy, but look out man, she´s crazy
She´ll really do you in, if you let her get under your skin..

Poison ivy.. poison ivy..
Well, late at night while you´re sleepin´
Poison ivy comes a-creepin´ all around..

Measles make you bumpy, and mumps will make you lumpy
And chicken pox will make you jump and twitch
A common cold will fool you, but whooping cough will cool you
Poison ivy, Lord will make you itch..

You´re gonna need an ocean, of calomine lotion
You´ll be scratching like a hound, the minute you start to mess around..

Poison ivy.. poison ivy..
Well, late at night while you´re sleepin´
Poison ivy comes a-creepin´ all around..

La-la-la-la-la-la.. La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la.. La-la-la-la-la-la
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This was written by the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song is about a femme fatale who is beautiful but dangerous, and much like poison ivy, can get under your skin and make you sick - or at least that's what we thought until 2009, when Leiber revealed in Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography: "'Poison Ivy' is a metaphor for a sexually transmitted disease - or the clap." Leiber and Stoller wrote another song in 1959 about a woman you might want to avoid in "Love Potion #9."

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