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Thread #13844   Message #954661
Posted By: Jim Dixon
17-May-03 - 11:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Dr. Iron Beard / Doktor Eisenbart
Subject: Lyr Add: DOCTOR IRONBEARD
The Library of Congress American Memory Collection has the sheet music of an English version, dated 1856.

DOCTOR IRONBEARD

I am old Doctor Ironbeard,
        Tol de-rol de-rol lol la.
If ever of the man you'v (sic) hear,
        Tol de-rol de-rol lol la.
Can quickly make a blind man talk,
        Tol de rol de rol lol la.
And that the deaf begin to walk.
        Tol de rol de rol lol la.

[similarly:]
I drove ten cartloads heavy stones...
From the body of old Mrs. Jones....
The last her gravestone also came....
She is since then no longer lame....

There was a man in Diddledum....
I gave him five pounds opium....
He slept ten years in easy rest...
And is as yet with snoozing blest....

That is the way I cure the sick....
My med'cines operate quite quick....
I cut and shoot and this and that...
And therefore wear a doctor's hat....

A woman had a wane, I found....
It weighed exactly 100 pound....
I choked her with a hempen cord...
Which did directly help afford....

A boy of toothache did complain....
Five hollow teeth did explain....
I shot them with a pistol out...
And sent him on a happy rout....