Cod Liver Oil Lyrics

I'm a young married man and I'm tired of my life,
For lately I've married an ailing old wife;
She does nothing all day but sit down and sigh,
See, I wish to the Lord that I only could die.
Doctor, O Doctor, O dear Doctor 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 keeps on drinking your cod liver oil.

Well, a friend of me own came to see me one day,
And he told me my wife was just pining away;
And he also told me that she would get strong,
If I bought her a bottle from dear Doctor John.

Doctor, O Doctor, O dear Doctor 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 keeps on drinking your cod liver oil.
I bought her a bottle, 'twas just for a try,
And the way that she drank it, you'd swear she was dry;
I bought her another, it went just the same,
Till I know she's got cod liver oil on the brain.

Doctor, O Doctor, O dear Doctor 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 keeps on 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 would swear it was singing 'bout cod liver oil.

Doctor, O Doctor, O dear Doctor 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 keeps on drinking your cod liver oil