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 sits down and sigh

Saying I wish to the lord that I only could die

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor de Jongh

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'd buy her a bottle from Dr de Jongh

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor de Jongh

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 Jongh

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 kettle do boil

You'd swear it was singing out: "Cod liver oil."

Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor de Jongh

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

• Artist:The Dubliners
• Album:The Best Of The Dubliners (2003)