"There's a Skeeter on My Peter (Knock 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. This song, like many in its genre, has frequently variable lyrics, including substituting "knock it off" with "beat it off" or "whack it off".
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Variations of version
Variant #1:
There's a skeeter on my peter, flick it off There's a skeeter on my peter, flick it off There's a dozen on my cousin's I can hear the bastards buzzin' There's a skeeter on my peter, flick it offVariant #2:
There's a skeeter on my peter, get it off There's a dozen on my cousin's I can hear the bastards buzzin' There's a skeeter on my peter, get it offVariant #3:
There's a skeeter on my peter, sweet Marie There's another on my brother, can't you see There's a dozen on my cousin Can't you hear those bastards buzzin' There's a skeeter on my peter, sweet MarieVariant #4:
There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off There's another on my brother, whack it off There's a dozen on my cousin's I can hear the bastards buzzin' There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it offVariant #5:
There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off There's another on my brother, knock it off There's a dozen on my cousin's just to hear the bastards buzzin' There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it offVariant #6:
There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off There's a skeeter on my peter playing ping pong with my ding dong There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it offVariant #7:
There's a skeeter on my peter, flick it off There's a skeeter on my peter, flick it off There's a thousand more a comin', I can hear them all abuzzin' There's a skeeter on my peter, flick it offVariant #8:
There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off There's a skeeter on my peter Cuz it knows there's nothin' sweeter There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off There's a spider up inside her, get it out There's a spider up inside her, get it out There's a spider up inside her Cuz there ain't nowhere that's wider There's a spider up inside her, get it outOrigins
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". This song has been commercially recorded by Valby and by an anonymous person on the 1960 LP The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men.