Cod Liver Oil

Great Big Sea

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)