There's a Skeeter on My Peter

"There's a Skeeter on My Peter (Whack it Off)" is a well-known humorous song. It is sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It" or sometimes "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain". The premise of this song is that the mosquito is on the singer's penis ("peter") and he would like someone to cause the insect to depart from his appendage.

The earliest printed example of this song is found in the book Parodology (1927) where the melody is listed as an adaptation of the tune "Little Bit of Love".[1] This song has been commercially recorded by John Valby and by an anonymous person on the 1960 LP The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men.[2]

Lyric variations

This song, like many in its genre, has frequently variable lyrics, including substituting "whack it off" with "beat it off" or "knock it off". A popular version goes like this:[3]

There's a skeeter on my peter, whack if off!
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off!
There's a dozen on my cousin, I can hear them bastards buzzin';
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off!

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References
  1. Harbin, E. O. (1927). Parodology: Songs for Fun and Fellowship. Cokesbury Press. p. 16.
  2. "The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men" in accompanying booklet, Mack McCormick, The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men, 1960, vinyl.
  3. Valby, John. "Skeeter". Ouvir Música. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
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