Sing "I Got It From Agnes"

Do you know the Tom Lehrer song "I Got It From Agnes"? No?

OK, click below and learn the song. The link is for a video file on YouTube. "Agnes" has been removed several times from YouTube, but she's back.

Watch the video first, click HERE. It might not work because the Lehrer Internet takedowns have started.

Now it's your turn! Start singing after (right)clicking the karaoke file HERE.

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I love my friends and they love me
We're just as close as we can be
And just because we really care

Whatever we get, we share!

I got it from Agnes
She got it from Jim
We all agree it must have been
Louise who gave it to him

She got it from Harry
Who got it from Marie
And ev'rybody knows that Marie
Got it from me

Giles got it from Daphne
She got it from Joan
She picked it up in Ireland
A-kissin' the Blarney Stone

Pierre gave it to Sheila
Who must have brought it there
He got it from Francois and Jacques
Aha, lucky Pierre!

Max got it from Edith
Who gets it ev'ry spring
She got it from her daddy
Who just gives her ev'rything

She then gave it to Daniel
Whose spaniel has it now
Our dentist even got it
And we're still wondering how

Ah, but I got it from Agnes
Or maybe it was Sue
Or Millie or Billie or Gillie or Willie or..
Doesn't matter who

It might have been at the pub
or at the club, or in the loo
And if you will be my friend, then I might ...
(Mind you, I said "might" ...)
Give it to you!

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This song was written and performed by Tom Lehrer as early as 1953, maybe a little before that. Originally it was called "The Hospital Song" or "I Got It From Sally", but Lehrer changed the title to "I Got It From Agnes".

On this page you heard an audio version of a MIDI file downloaded from a "free site".

The usual online MIDI-versions of "I Got It From Agnes" have a lot of more instrument tracks, but they sound even worse than this one.

It is better to use a simplified version if you want to enjoy karaoke.

Back to the MIDI page? Click HERE.