Lyr Req: Songs about Drs, Nurses or Medicine

Subject: Lyr Req: Songs about Drs, Nurses or Medicine
From: GUEST,Jbean
Date: 29 May 25 - 09:47 PM

Looking for songs that feature or at least include Doctors, Nurses or Medicine

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about Drs, Nurses or Medicine
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 25 - 01:25 AM

Hi, Jbean - we have lots of songs about doctors and medicine and suck. They're a little hard to search for, so I crosslinked the ones I found to this thread - you'll see them listed toward the upper left of this page.

Songs in our Digital Tradition folksong database have keyword indicators like @doctor and @medicine and @illness and @disease -
I added most of those songs to the crosslistings, but you might find others by searching our keywords in Google.

Suggested Google search: "@medicine" site:mudcat.org

Hope that helps.
Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about Drs, Nurses or Medicine
From: GUEST
Date: 30 May 25 - 05:42 AM

Cod Liver Oil
I'm a young married man and I'm tired of me life
For lately I married an ailing young wife,
She does nothing all day, only sits down and sigh
Saying I wish to the lord that I only could die.

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor De Jong
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of me life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

Till a friend of me own came to see me one day
And he told me my wife was just pining away
But he afterwards told me that she would get strong
If I buy her a bottle from Dr De Jong.

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor De Jong
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of me life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

So I bought her a bottle, t'was just for to try
And the way that she scoffed it you'd swear she was dry
I bought her another, it went just the same
Till I owned she's got cod liver oil on the brain.

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor De Jong
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of me life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

My house it resembles a big doctor's shop
With bottles and bottles from bottom to top
And when in the morning the kettle do boil
You'd swear it was singing out cod liver oil.

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor De Jong
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of me life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.