Medicine Show Lyrics - Singles - Big Audio Dynamite

Covered wagon medicine show 

Take you to the place where the healing flows, oh, oh 

Weak in spirit, we got the juice 

Won't save your soul it'll shine your shoes 

Treated king to kangaroo 

Santa Fe to Timbuktu, oh, oh 

Don't be fooled by imitation 

This is the stuff that cured a nation 

We took the tube and the high plains too 

Never stopped long just passing through 

A drop of the laughter of the maids of France 

Makes a hopeless cripple dance, oh 

It was really vile weather 

When we got tarred and feathered 

You could hear the six guns sound 

As they chased us out of town 

In India we're all the rave 

Discovered that it's great as aftershave 

Dropped in the sea just off Japan 

Swapped 20 bottles for an Aqua Walkman, oh 

Immunity from ridicule 

Improves your brains if you're a fool, oh, oh 

And I read in the Middle East 

They traded some for a hostage release 

Now, if you're bald it'll give you hair 

If you got straight trousers it'll give you flares 

Feeling up you'll get depressed 

Out of style here's a brand new dress, oh 

It was really vile weather 

When we got tarred and feathered 

You could hear the six guns sound 

As they chased us out of town 

The stuff we sell is just the best 

Passing all consumer test, oh, oh 

Days of Heaven nights of sin 

Voodoo stick and sharks fin 

When all around you seems like Hell 

Just one sip will make you well, oh, oh 

Multipurpose in a jar 

If you ain't ill it'll fix your car 

In days of yore for all bad feelings 

Washing socks and stripping ceilings 

Nowadays it's used medicinally 

For all known human malady, oh 

It was really vile weather 

When we got tarred and feathered 

You could hear the six guns sound 

As they chased us out of town, oh