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Cod Liver Oil
The Dubliners
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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 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 me wife was just pining away
But he afterwards told me that she would get strong
If I'd buy her a bottle from doctor 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 own 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 kettles a 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