Cod Liver Oil

I'm a young married man and im tired of life

Ten years ive been wed to a pale sickly wife

She's nothing to do only sit there and cry

Prayin and prayin to god she would die

A friend of my own came to see me one day

He told me my wife she was pining the way

He afterwards told me that she would get strong

If I get a bottle from dear Dr. John

R: Oh doctor oh doctor oh dear doctor John

Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong

I'm afraid of my life ill go down in the soil

If me wife don’t stop drinkin your cod liver oil

I bought her a bottle well just for to try

And the way that she drank it ya think she might die

I bought her another it vanished the same

and then she got cod liver oil on the brain

I bought her another she drank it no doubt

And then she began to get terrible stout

and when she got stout well of course she got strong

And I became jealous oh dear doctor John

R: Oh doctor oh doctor...

Me house it resembles a great doctor shop

It's covered in bottles from bottom to top

Well early the morning the kettle does boil

You would swear it was singing of cod liver oil

R: Oh doctor oh doctor... (2x)