Cod Liver Oil Lyrics - The Hard & The Easy - Great Big Sea

Cod liver oil 

Im 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 

Chorus; 

Oh doctor oh doctor oh dear doctor john 

your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong 

im 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 

Chorus 

Me house it resembles a great doctor shop 

its 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 

Chorus x2