The Dubliners - Cod Liver Oil lyrics

[The Dubliners - Cod Liver Oil lyrics]

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 sit's down and sigh
Saying I wish to the lord
That I only could die

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor De'Jung
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'Jung

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor De'Jung
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'John
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

Me 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'John
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

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