"Poison Ivy" is a popular song by American songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

This was their third top-ten hit of that year following "Charlie Brown" and "Along Came Jones".

She is compared to measles, mumps, chickenpox, the common cold, and whooping cough, but is deemed worse, because "Poison Ivy, Lord, will make you itch".

According to lyricist Jerry Leiber, "Pure and simple, 'Poison Ivy' is a metaphor for a sexually transmitted disease".

[3] The song also makes references to other flowers such as a rose and a daisy.