here’s a little ditty i wrote about vaccines to the tune of jolene, by dolly parton:

doctor's office waiting room on "shot day"

vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, vaccines,

i’m begging of you please don’t hurt my bird.

vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, vaccines,

it’s hard to sift through everything i’ve heard.

          your protection is beyond compare

          shielding us from rubella’s snare

          all for little more than an infant’s scream.

some say you make kids autism prone

when you mix with testosterone

are your effects really this extreme, vaccines?

          they fight about you in the news

          but the parents are the ones who lose

          your truth is so evasive, damn vaccines.

so once a month we have “shot day”

according to a schedule that is delayed

tripling our trips to the doc for mean vaccines.

          vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, vaccines

          i’m begging of you please don’t hurt my bird.

          vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, vaccines,

          it’s hard to sift through everything i’ve heard.

no parents’ day out or church nursery

for a kid without immunity

you can’t fully join society without vaccines.

          i had to have this talk with you

          since last week i gave in to you

          we faced the dreaded MMR, vaccine

vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, vaccines,

i’m begging of you please don’t hurt my bird.

vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, vaccines,

it’s hard to sift through everything i’ve heard.